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PREFACE  TO  THE  FIRST  EDITION, 


( )n  entering  a  large  city  the  eye   is  filled  with  tl  i  of 

the   material    struggle  for  li  of  then  of  tl 

dismal.  in  not  but   reflecl  on  that  ince  which 

has   upreared    the   vasl    mart.     And    yet,  above  all  the   massive   <>r 
gant  structures  that  symboliz  ind 

ambitions  of  man,  there  towi  chun  h 

iing  out  into  the  country,  in  the   mo  I  villag 

amid   surroundings  nearer  to   the  God  of  nature,  »till  we  find   the 
upreared  shaft,  reminder  of  mankii  demption. 

Th  pies,  lowli  perb,  arc  the  evidei  rili- 

•  II  that  builds  beyond  Tim  all  thi 

in   Time     But    the   temp] 
back  of  this  the  civilization  >>n  uluch  depends  tl  I  the 

temporal,    there   hai 
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nain,    the   spiritual.     In    tl 

,1   the  hun  h    to   th 

ihority   overrul 
dio       .    until  all  '  '• 

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th'  man 


The  pages  that  follow  will  give  the  reader  an  idea  of  how  a 
diocese  is  constructed.  The  men  who  most  largely  figure  in  this 
volume  are  also  heroes  of  battle-fields,  but  their  victories  were 
bloodless,  won  under  the  banner  of  the  Prince  of  Peace.  God 
knows  there  are  wounds  to  be  received  in    that  field. 

We  who  reap  what  those  pioneer  priests  sowed  can,  in  the 
historical  sketches  that  follow,  learn  something  of  what  it  meant, 
of  hardships,  of  fatigues,  of  disgusts  and  crosses,  to  make  firm 
foundation  of  Catholicity  in  Northern  Ohio  and  the  I)iocese  of 
Cleveland. 

Our  contemporaries  who  are  still  building  and  supervising,  they 
too  have  history  to  make,  their  Catholic  imprints  to  leave  on 
Time;  and  their  road  if  less  rugged  in  one  way,  is  as  arduous  in 
another  as  that  of  their  priestly  predecessors.  Equal  the  merit  of 
those  who  blaze  the  road,  or  those  who  lay  the  highway.  The 
cross  assumes  many  shapes. 

The  author  of  this  volume — to  him  a  labor  of  love — is  a  priest 
of  the  Diocese  of  Cleveland.  Here  was  he  born,  here  ordained, 
here  has  he  ministered.  To  this  diocese  of  his  affections  he  dedi- 
cates this  delineation  of  her  ecclesiastical  growth. 

If  its  reading  will  conduce  to  reflection  on  what  it  means  to 
live  for  God,  the  transcendent  merit  of  laboring  with  eye  upturned 
to  heaven,  ever  facing  the  grand  edifice  of  Eternity,  he  will  have 
attained  sufficient  object. 

By  those  of  the  laity  whose  sturdy  Catholic  parents  figure  in 
this  work,  it  will  be  particularly  treasured. 

And  the  value  of  thus  collating  facts  of  early  Catholic  history, 
the  advantage  of  this  volume  to  the  future  historian  on  a  larger 
scale,  commends  itself  at  once  to  the  discerning  reader. 

Manly  Tello. 
September  10,  1887. 


PREFACE  TO  THE  SECOND  EDITION. 


The  exhaustion  of  the  first  edition   of  ■  Church  in  North- 

ern Ohio  and  in  the  I'  of  Cleveland,"  as  also  a  demand  for 

cond  edition,  pleasing  evid  I    the   growing    intei 

among   our    Catholi*  e    for    information    on    church    I 

whether  d  neral. 

Though  this  work  docs  not  pretend    to   be 
<      iiolicitv  in  this  fair   and   pros]  i    of   the   Church 

it  contains  in  succinct    form  the   historical    data   and   the    "I. I., 
trees'*    that,    it    is   hoped,    will   aid    and    guide    the    future    hi 
who    will    best    appreciate    the  dry-as-dusl  labor  at  impanj 

.      ■    !  >f   Chun  h< 

The   time   has    not    .  u>  write  such    hi  the 

that    those    who    helped    to    make   it 

I  or  still  among  the  livi 

I    »i  valuable  assistance   rendered    to   tl,  :  I  tha 

[.     \l  i  hebeuf    and    i 
the   pit  Northern    0  Mr.    John  G 

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I     D  i  i      ■■..    I     w  i,  A.  M  ;:  ■      i      \-  ;-    . 

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PREFACE  TO  THE  THIRD  EDITION. 


Grateful  for  the  kind  reception  given  the  first  and  second  editions 
of  "The  Church  in  Northern  Ohio  and  in  the  Diocese  of  Cleveland," 
the  author  sends  this  unpretentious  volume,  with  some  changes  and 
additions,  on  its  third  tour  amongst  an  appreciative  Catholic  public. 

March  20,  i88g. 


CONTENTS. 


Page. 

Preface  to  First  Edition,       -------  3 

Preface  to  Second  Edition,         ------  5 

Historical  Sketch  of  Catholicity,  Part  I.— in  Northern  Ohio;      -             -  9 
Part  II.— in  the  Diocese  of  Cleveland,              -            -  25 
Biographical  Sketch  of  the  Right  Rev.  Edward  Fenwick    O.  P.,             -  46 
Biographical  Sketch  of  the  Most  Rev.  John  B.  Purcell,  D.  D.,       -  52 
Biographical  Sketch  of  the  Right  Rev.  Amadeus  Rappe,  D.  D.,              -  57 
Biographical  Sketch  of  the  Right  Rev.  Richard  Gilmour,  D.  D.,    -  76 
Biographical  Notices  of  the  Secular  and  Regular  Clergy,  1818— Novem- 
ber, 1888,         -------  84 

List  of  the  Secular  Clergy  in  the   Diocese  of  Cleveland,  Dec.  I,  1888,  193 

List  of  Regular  Clergy             "               "           "          "            Dec.  1,  1888,  200 

List  of  Churches,  Stations,  etc.,            "          "          "          October  1847,  202 

List  of  Churches,  Stations,  etc.,            "           "          "          Sept.  1,  18S7,  206 
List    of   Male  Religious  Communities  in    the   Diocese  of    Cleveland, 

November,  1888,         -                                                                -  216 
List  of  Female  Religious  Communities  in  the  Diocese  qf  Cleveland, 

November,  1888,         ------  217 

List  of  Educational  Institutions  in  the  Diocese  of  Cleveland,  Nov.  1888,  217 

List  of  Charitable  Institutions        "             "  218 

Catholic    Progress   in    Northern   Ohio    and    in   the    D*iocese   of  Cleve- 

l.in.l,   1                     7            ...               -                               -  219 

Historical  Sketch  of  Early  Catholicity  and    of   the   First    Church    in 

Ireland,       -------  226 

Historical   Sketch  of   Early  Catholicity   and  of  the    First   Church    in 

Toledo, »37 

[.ntcr  from  John  Gilmary  Shea,  LL.   !>.,                -           -           -  243 
Catholii    Miscellanea,          ------- 

Reminiscences  of  Rt,  Rev,  P.  I.  Machebeuf,  D.  D.- 
Rerain  Rt.  R<  v.  L.  De  Goesbriand,  D.  L)      - 


ILLUSTRATIONS. 


I.  St.  John's  Cathedral,  Cleveland,   -             -  -  Title  Page. 

II.  St.  Paul's  Church,  near  Dungannon,              -  -     facing  page       20 

III.  Right  Rev.  Edward  Fenwick,  O.  P.,  -  "         "  46 

IV.  Most  Rev.  John  B.  Purcell,  D.  D.,    -             -  -         "         "  52 

V.  Right  Rev.  Amadeus  Rappe,  D.  D.,         -  -  "         "  57 

VI.  Right  Rev.  Richard  Gilmour,  D.  D.,              -  .....  ?6 

VII.  St.  Mary's  Theological  Seminary,  Cleveland,  -  "  S4 

VIII.  St,  Stanislas'  Church,  Cleveland,        -             -  .....  I26 

IX.  Ursuline  Convent,  Cleveland,       -             -  -  150 

X.  Ursuline  Convent,  Toledo,      -             -             -  .         '•         "  175 

XI.  St.  Joseph's  Church,  Fremont,       -  "  192 

XII.  Charity  Hospital  and  Foundling  Asylum,  Cleveland,      "  218 

XIII.  St.  Mary's  Church,  on  the  "Flats,"  Cleveland,  -         "         "  226 

XIV.  (Old)  St.  Francis  de  Sales'  Church,  Toledo,  -  "         "  237 

XV.  St.  Bernard's  Parochial  School,  Akron,          -  -  246 


HISTORICAL  SKETCH 


— OF- 


Catholicity  in  Northern  Ohio 


— AND    IN    THE — 


Diocese  ok  Cleveland. 


:pa:r,t  i. 


Northern  Ohio. 


1749-1847- 

The  learned  Catholic  historian  of  the  Church  in  the  United 
States,  John  Gilmary  Slua,  LL.  1).,  in  an  interesting  article 
contributed  to  the  Catholic  Universe^  September  15,  l88l, 
says  that  the  first  trace  of  Catholic  missionaries  visiting  the 
territory  now  within  the  limits  of  Ohio,  is  found  as  early  as 
1749.  It  was  then  that  the  Jesuit  Fathers,  l'otier  and  Bonne- 
camp,  came  to  evangelize  the  Huron  Indians  living  along  the 
Vermillion  and  Sandusky  rivers,  in  Northern  Ohio.  He  also 
st.it.  5  that  the  firsl  permanent  chapel  within  the  confines  ..t 
the  present  state  of  Ohio,  was  erected  near  Sandusky  in  1751. 
by  the  fesuil  Father  de  la  Richardie,  who,  with  his  compan- 
ion-, had  come  from  Detroil  and  Canada  to  the  southern 
shore  of  1  ,ake  Erie. 

A   part  of  the  Huron   tribe  was  brought  by   Father  de  la 

Richardie,    in    1751.    to    Sandusky,    where,    under    the    name  of 

Wyandots,  they  soon  took  an  active  part  in  the  affairs  ol  the 
\\  est.     They  w  ere  also  conspicuous  in  the  last  Frendh  \\  ar,  and 


io  THE  JESUITS. 

at  its  close  were  implicated  in  the  conspiracy  of  Pontiac,  though 
long  checked  by  the  influence  of  Father  Peter  Potier,  S.  J. 
During  the  exciting  times  of  the  war  these  missionaries  were 
driven  from  Sandusky,  Father  Potier  being  the  last  Jesuit 
missionary  among  the  western  Hurons.  He  died  in  July,  1781. 
The  Indian  Missions  in  and  near  Sandusky  thence  depended 
entirely  on  the  priests  attached  to  the  French  Posts  in  Can- 
ada and  Michigan.  Although  the  Wyandots  at  Sandusky 
were  thus  cut  off  in  great  measure  from  all  spiritual  care 
and  instructions  they  kept  the  Faith.  When  white  settlers 
began  to  come  into  the  state  the  Wyandots  attracted  the  atten- 
tion of  the  Protestant  "  missionaries,"  who  appeared  to  be  bent 
rather  on  undoing  what  the  Jesuit  missionaries  had  done, 
than  combatting  Paganism  in  its  stronghold.  A  Presbyterian 
preacher  named  Joseph  Badger  made  an  attempt  to  "  evan- 
gelize "  the  Wyandots,  but  met  with  a  firm  opposition  from 
their  chiefs,  one  of  whom  it  is  said,  put  to  death  a  mem- 
ber of  his  tribe  because  he  had  apostatised.  The  Methodists 
next  attempted  what  the  Rev.  Badger  failed  to  do,  and  with 
better  success.  The  old  members  of  the  Wyandot  tribe  hav- 
ing died,  their  children,  who  had  not  been  properly  instructed, 
followed  the  new  religious  "  guides  "  and  so  were  lost  to  the 
church.* 

Traces  of  these  Indian  missions  have  been  found  recently 
near  the  Sandusky  River  at  Fremont  and  near  the  Portage 
River  at  Port  Clinton,  in  the  form  of  plain  silver  crosses,  such 
as  are  known  to  have  been  used  by  the  French  Canadian 
missionaries. 

When  the  Society  of  Jesus  was  suppressed,  and  Canada 
lost  to  the  French,  the  above  mentioned  Indian  missions 
were  abandoned.  From  175  1  to  1795  no  record  is  found 
of  any  further  effort  made  in  Northern  Ohio  to  continue 
the  missionary  work  begun  by  the  Jesuits.  In  the  early  part 
of  1796  the  Rev.  Edmund  Burket  was  sent  by  Bishop  Hubert, 
of  Quebec,  from  Detroit  to  the  north-western  part  of  Ohio, 
near  Fort  Meigs,  then  just  built  by  the  British  government  on 


*  Shea's  Am.  Cath.  Missions,  p.  203. 

tSee  "Letter  from  John  Gilm'ary  Shea,  LL.D.,"  i>.  243.    Rev.  E.Burke  was  born  in 
Ireland  about  1743;  died  at  Halifax,  as  Vicar  Apostolic  of  Nova  Scotia,  Dee.  1,  1820. 


THE  DOMINICANS.  n 

the  east  bank  of  the  Maumee  River,  near  the  present  site  of 
Perrysburg,  Wood  county.  Here  he  resided  about  one  year, 
ministering  to  the  few  Catholic  soldiers  in  the  fort,  and 
endeavoring,  with  little  success,  to  christianize  the  Ottawa 
and  Chippewa  Indians  in  the  neighborhood — the  latter  work 
having  been  for  long  one  of  his  aims  as  a  missionary  priest. 
Father  Burke  left  this  unpromising  charge  about  February, 
1797.  From  that  time,  and  until  1 8 17,  no  priest  was  stationed 
in  Northern  Ohio,  and  in  fact  none  in  the  entire  territory  of 
the  present  state  of  Ohio. 

During  this  period  of  about  twenty  years  a  number  of 
Catholic  families  came  from  Maryland  and  Pennsylvania  and 
settled  in  Columbiana  county,  some  as  early  as  18 12,  and 
others  a  few' years  later  in  Stark  and  Wayne  counties. 

In  18 14  the  saintly  Dominican  Father,  Rev.  Edward  Fen- 
wick,  was  sent  by  Bishop  Flaget,  of  Bardstown,  Ky.,  to  look 
after  the  spiritual  interests  of  the  Catholics,  sparsely  settled 
in  Southern  and  Central  Ohio,  with  a  view  of  providing  them 
with  regular  pastoral  attendance.  In  18 17  he  paid  his  first 
pastoral  visit  to  the  few  Catholic  families  settled  in  the  north- 
eastern part  of  the  state — Columbiana  and  Stark  counties. 
It  is  therefore  from  last  mentioned  year  that  Catholicity  in 
Northern  Ohio  really  dates  its  beginning. 

As  this  narrative  is  to  be  confined  to  the  territory  of 
Northern  Ohio — the  present  Diocese  of  Cleveland — in  record- 
ing the  establishment,  growth  and  progress  of  the  Church,  it 
will  de.il  with  such  facts  relating  thereto  as  far  as  the  subject 
demands,  and  the  narrow  limits  of  a  sketch  will  permit. 


I. 

THE   1)<  (MINICANS. 

Columbiana  and  Stark"  counties  are  the  cradle  of  Catho- 
licity in  Northern  Ohio,  and  tin-  Dominicans  its  first  mission- 
aries. As  to  the  early  labor-,  of  these  pioneer  priests  in  North- 
ern   <  >hio    it    is    to    lie    regretted    th.it    the    records    are    sadly 

deficient.     In  fact,  as  the  writer  was  informed  by  the  Very 
Rev.   Provincial  of  the  Dominicans  in  the  United  States,  no 


12 


THE  DOMINICANS. 


records  were  kept  by  the  Dominicans,  either  by  themselves 
while  attending  to  their  scattered  missions,  or  at  their  con- 
vents in  Kentucky,  and  in  Perry  county,  Ohio,  whence  they 
were  sent  to  Northern  Ohio.  This  account  of  their  early 
labors  must  therefore  necessarily  be  incomplete.  The  informa- 
tion here  given  was  gathered  from  historical  sketches  of  con- 
gregations under  their  pastoral  care,  and  although  meagre,  it 
is  hoped  it  will  not  fail  to  prove  of  interest  to  the  reader. 

As  above  stated,  Rev.  Father  Fenwick,  the  pioneer  priest 
of  this  state,  made  his  first  visit  to  Northern  Ohio  in  1817, 
and  found  a  number  of  Catholic  families  settled  near  Hanover,, 
and  near  the  present  village  of  Dungannon,  in  Columbiana 
county;  also  at  Canton,  Stark  county.  In  18 18  he  came 
again,  accompanied  by  his  nephew,  the  Rev.  N.  D.  Young, 
who  had  been  ordained  the  year  previous.  Arrangements 
were  now  made  for  regular  visits.  In  December,  1818,  Father 
Fenwick  was  directed  to  establish  a  convent  of  his  Order  near 
Somerset,  Perry  county,  Ohio,  on  a  tract  of  land  given  the 
Dominicans  for  that  purpose  by  Mr.  P.  Dittoe,  a  fervent  and 
generous  Catholic. 

This  convent  was  the  residence  of  the  Dominican  Fathers 
who  attended,  at  regular  intervals,  the  missions  entrusted  to 
their  pastoral  care  in  Columbiana,  Stark,  Mahoning  and 
Wayne  counties.  Rev.  Fathers  Fenwick  and  Young  were 
soon  joined  by  others  of  their  Order,  each  of  whom  had  charge 
of  one  or  more  missions  in  Northern  and  Central  Ohio.  The 
following  is  a  complete  list  of  their  names,  viz:  Reverends 
Vincent  de  Raymacher,  Charles  P.  Montgomery,  John  A.  Hill, 
John  G.  Alleman,  Joseph  S.  Alemany,  P.  Fochenkress,  J. 
O'Meara,  Thomas  H.  Martin,  A.  Fahey,  Thomas  McGrady, 
D.  J.  O'Leary,  A.  F.  Van  de  Weyer  and  Richard  P.  Miles. 
Wherever  they  labored  they  did  so  with  zeal  and  success,  and 
left  their  impress  on  all  the  missions  under  their  charge. 
Hardships  and  difficulties  and  disappointments  they  bore 
cheerfully.  They  laid  the  foundation  of  religion  deeply,  so 
that  their  successors  might,  as  they  did,  build  solidly  thereon 
the  edifice. 

Among   them,    Fathers    Fenwick,    Young  and    Hill    were 


THE  REDEMPTORISTS.  1.3 

markedly  successful.  Their  names  are  intimately  associated 
with  the  earh'  Catholic  history  of  Northern  Ohio  ;  the  first 
two  as  founders  of  the  flourishing"  congregations  in  Colum- 
biana and  Wayne  counties,  and  Father  Hill  as  the  founder  of 
St.  John's,  Canton,  where  his  remains  now  rest. 

Bishop  Flaget  finding  it  impossible  to  attend  to  the  vast 
territory  under  his  jurisdiction,  petitioned  the  Holy  See  for 
relief.  The  result  was  the  erection  of  the  Diocese  of  Cincin- 
nati, embracing  the  States  of  Ohio  and  Michigan,  and  the 
appointment  of  Father  Fenwick  as  its  first  Bishop.  Reluc- 
tantly he  accepted  the  burden,  and  was  consecrated  at  Bards- 
town,  Kv.,  January  13,  1822.  Till  his  death,  in  1832,  he 
loved  to  visit  the  field  of  his  early  missionary  labors  and  was 
always  most  cordially  welcomed  by  his  former  co-laborers 
and  parishioners. 

The  Dominicans  gradually  gave  up  to  secular  priests  their 
pastoral  charges  in  the  above  named  counties  till,  in  1842, 
they  withdrew  entirely,  St.  John's,  Canton,  being  their  last 
mission  in  Northern  Ohio. 

II. 
THE   REDEMPTORISTS. 

Meanwhile  the  central  portion  of  Northern  Ohio,  especially 
tin-  counties  of  Huron,  Erie,  Sandusky  and  Seneca,  had 
received  a  considerable  influx  of  Catholics,  principally  from 
<  km  many. 

In  [832  several  Redemptorist  fathers  came  from  Austria 
to  the  United  States,  under  direction  of  their  Provincial  and 
at  the  earnest  invitation  of  Rt.  Rev.  Edward  Fenwick,  to  take 
charge  of  the  Indian  and  tin-  few  Catholic  German  missions 
in  Michigan,  then  under  his  jurisdiction  as  Bishop  ol  Cincin- 
nati. Disheartened  at  meeting  with  little  or  no  success  in 
their  priestly  labors  in  Michigan  they  asked  to  lie  relieved  "t 
this  fruitless  mission.  As  soon  as  their  request  was  granted 
by  their  Provincial,  Bishop  Purcell,  successor  to  Bishop  Fen- 
wick, offered  them  the  pastoral  charge  of  the  missions  in 
Crawford,   Huron,  Erie,  Seneca  and  Wyandot  counties,  with 


i4  THE  REDEMPTORISTS. 

residence  at  Peru,  Huron  county,  where,  since  1829,  a  congre- 
gation of  Catholic  Germans  had  been  organized.  Rev.  F.  X. 
Tschenhens  was  accordingly  sent,  in  1834;  later  he  was  joined 
by  the  Rev.  Fathers  Czakert,  Haetscher,  Prost  and  Saenderl. 
Soon  these  good  and  zealous  priests  found  as  little  consolation 
here  as  did  their  brethren  in  Michigan.  Their  appeals  to  the 
generosity  of  their  people  in  Peru,  for  the  erection  of  a  new 
and  much  needed  church,  and  for  other  parochial  wants,  met 
with  no  response.  The  spirit  of  the  congregation  was  bad; 
insult  and  abuse  the  return  given  the  priests  for  their  labors 
and  self-saerifice.  This  was  most  painful  to  good  Father 
Tschenhens,  who  had  in  a  particular  manner  interested  him- 
self in  the  spiritual  welfare  of  his  congregation."  However, 
in  spite  of  ill-treatment  he  and  his  faithful  co-laborers  con- 
tinued to  discharge  their  duty,  hoping  against  hope  for  a 
change  of  spirit.  Father  Tschenhens  now  took  personal 
charge  of  the  scattered  missions  in  the  adjoining  counties, 
visiting  at  regular  intervals,  on  horseback  and  often  over 
almost  impassable  roads,  Sandusky,  Norwalk,  Liberty,  Tiffin, 
Bucyrus,  Wolf's  Creek  (now  New  Riegel),  McCutchenville 
(no  longer  existing  as  a  mission),  and  occasionally  Canton. 
Whilst  he  was  thus  engaged,  Father  Czakert  and  his  asso- 
ciates above  mentioned,  attended  Peru  and  the  neighboring 
missions. 

No  change  for  the  better  taking  place  in  the  spirit  of  the 
congregation  at  Peru,  the  Redemptorist  Fathers  asked  their 
Provincial  for  permission  to  give  up  this  charge.  Their 
request  was  granted,  and  on  Low  Sunday,  1839,  tne  Rev- 
Father  Prost  announced  to  the  congregation  that  he  and  his 
•brethren  intended  to  leave  them,  giving  as  a  reason  for  so 
doing,  the  continued  unkindness  and  ingratitude  shown  the 
Fathers  in  return  for  their  labors  among  the  people  entrusted 
to  their  pastoral  care. 

All  the  Redemptorist  Fathers  left  as  announced,  with  the 
exception  of  Rev.  F.  X.  Tschenhens,  who  a  few  months  later 
followed  his  associates  to  Pittsburgh,  where  they  founded  a 
convent  and  the  present  very  flourishing  congregation  of  St. 
Philomena. 


THE  SANGUINISTS  15 

In  1 84 1 ,  at  the  earnest  solicitation  of  Bishop  Purcell, 
Father  Tschenhens  again  took  charge  of  the  congregation  at 
Peru,  which  had  been  without  a  priest  for  months,  owing  to 
dissensions  which  caused  the  removal  of  the  secular  priest  in 
charge,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Freigang.  Father  Tschenhens  was 
assisted  by  the  Redemptorist  Fathers,  Revs.  J.  N.  Neumann 
and  L.  M.  Alig,  remaining  from  June,  1841,  to  November, 
1843.  Meanwhile  he  also  attended  Tiffin  and  a  few  other 
missions  in  Seneca  and  Wyandot  counties.  With  last  men- 
tioned date  ended  the  labors  of  the  Redemptorists  in  Northern 
Ohio. 

III. 

THF  SANGUINISTS. 

Tin-  number  of  Catholics  and  missions  so  rapidly  increased 
that  Bishop  Purcell  was  obliged  to  seek  for  more  priestly  help 
outside  his  diocese.  Whilst  on  his  return  home  from  a  visit 
to  the  Eternal  City,  in  1843,  he  chanced  to  meet  at  Havre  a 
band  of  missionary  priests,  members  of  the  Society  of  the 
Most  Precious  Blood  (also  and  better  known  as  Sanguinists  , 
who  were  on  their  way  to  the  United  States  to  devote  them- 
selves to  the  pastoral  care  of  their  German  brethren  in  the 
Faith.  He  informed  them  of  the  great  and  pressing  need  of 
priests  for  his  diocese,  and  kindly  invited  them  to  come  to 
his  assistance.  The  invitation  was  accepted,  and  in  January, 
1844,  the  Very  Rev.  Father  Brunner,  Provincial  of  the  Sanguin- 
ists, accompanied  by  Rev  Fathers  Meier,  Wittmer,  Van 
den  Broek,  Capeder,  Ringele  and  Jacomet,  arrived  at  Peru 
and  tool,  charge  of  St.  Alphonsus'  congregation  as  successors 
to  the  Redemptorists.  I  'hey  also  accepted  charge  of  the 
missions  attended  by  their  predecessors,  besides  attending  to 
the  Catholic  Germans  In  Cleveland,  and  the  scattered  mis- 
sion-, in  Lorain,  Medina,  Wayne,  Portage  and  Stark  counties. 

The  advent  of  these  devoted  priests  was  hailed  with  delight 
wherever  they  were  sent.  Their  labors  were  signally  blessed. 
Religion  flourished  in  all  the  missions  under  their  vigilant 
and  devoted  care,  so  that  the  health)  growth  of  Catholicity  in 
Northern  <  mio  may  be  justly,  and  in  a  large  measure,  ascribed 


1 6  THE  SECULAR  CLERGY. 

under  God  to  the  untiring  zeal  of  these  excellent  priests  and 
their  equally  zealous  successors.  December,  1844,  Father 
Brunner  established  a  convent  for  this  Society  at  New  Riegel, 
in  1845  one  at  Thompson,  and  in  1848  another  at  Glandorf, 
each  of  which  places  became  a  centre  of  Catholicity  for  the 
surrounding  country,  and  from  which  the  neighboring  missions 
were  regularly  attended.  In  1847  the  congregation  of  Peru, 
completely  changed  in  spirit  by  the  prayerful  labors  oTthe  San- 
guinist  Fathers,  was  resigned  by  them.  It  was  then  placed 
in  charge  of  secular  priests  and  has  since  been  thus  attended. 


IV. 

THE  SECULAR  CLERGY. 

Thus  far  this  sketch  has  dealt  chiefly  with  the  labors  of 
the  clergy  belonging  to  the  religious  orders.  The  secular 
clergy  are  no  less  deserving  of  special  mention,  for  they  too 
labored  in  this  part  of  the  Lord's  vineyard  amid  trials,  diffi- 
culties and  hardships,  often  side  by  side  with  their  brethren 
already  mentioned,  and  more  often  alone  and  singly  in  the 
scattered  and  wide-spread  missions  of  Northern  Ohio.  And 
their  labors  have  borne  fruit  a  hundred  fold.  They  did  yeo- 
man's service  ;  they  paved  the  way  for  those  who  succeeded 
them,  and  laid  the  foundation  for  many  missions  that  have 
long  since  developed  into  strong,  vigorous  and  prosperous 
congregations. 

The  first  secular  priest  to  do  missionary  work  in  Northern 
Ohio  was  the  Rev.  Ignatius  J.  Million,  a  learned  and  pious 
clergyman.  He  was  stationed  at  the  Cathedral  in  Cincinnati 
between  1824  and  1834,  and  was  repeatedly  sent  by  his  Bishop 
to  the  missions  in  Stark  and  Columbiana  counties,  also  to 
Tiffin  and  Fremont,  remaining  for  longer  or  shorter  periods  in 
each  place.  His  first  visit  to  Northern  Ohio  was  shortly  after 
his  ordination,  in  1824.  Rev.  Francis  Marshall  was  the  next 
secular  priest,  doing  pastoral  work  at  Chippewa,  (near  Doyles- 
town)  in  1827.  In  1830  Rev.  John  M.  Henni  was  appointed 
resident  pastor  of  St.  John's,  Canton,  remaining  till  1834. 
During  this  time  he  also  attended   missions  in  Columbiana, 


THE  SECULAR  CLERGY..  17 

Stark  and  Wayne  counties.  Next  in  point  of  time  was  the 
Rev.  Edmund  Quinn,  first  resident  pastor  of  St.  Mary's,  Tiffin, 
1 83 1  —3 5 .  His  mission  covered  all  of  Northwestern  Ohio.  In 
1833  Rev.  \V.  J.  Horstmann  came  to  Northern  Ohio  and 
founded  a  colony  on  land  he  purchased  in  Putnam  county  from 
the  government.  Here  also  he  established  St.  John's  congre- 
gation, Glandorf.  Rev.  James  Conlan  had  charge  of  missions 
in  Columbiana  and  Mahoning  counties,  and  the  eastern  por- 
tion of  Stark  county,  from  1834.  In  1835  Rev.  Matthias 
Wuertz  was  appointed  pastor  of  St.  John's,  Canton,  and  atten- 
ded Massillon,  Louisville,  Navarre,  and  several  stations  in 
Stark  and  Wayne  counties.  He  remained  till  1 845.  Rev. 
John  Dillon  was  the  first  resident  pastor  of  Cleveland,  from 
1835  to  1836,  and  during  this  short  time  attended  stations  in 
Summit  and  Lorain  counties.  Rev.  Basil  Schorb,  a  native  of 
Pennsylvania,  was  appointed  resident  pastor  of  Chippewa  in 
1837,  and  had  charge  of  Canal  Fulton,  Massillon,  Canton? 
Liverpool,  Randolph  and  Wooster.  He  left  Ohio  in  1843. 
Rev.  George  Boehne  was  on  the  mission  in  Putnam  county, 
notably  Fort  Jennings,  from  1841. 

Rev.  Patrick  O'Dwyer  had  pastoral  charge  of  the  Catholics 
of  Cleveland  from  1837  to  1839,  and  commenced  their  first 
church  in   1838. 

Between  1838  and  1840  the  Rev.  Michael  McAleer  did 
pastoral  duty  at  Canton,  Dungannon  and  Navarre.  From 
[839  to  1847,  the  Rev.  Joseph  McNamee  was  resident  pastor 
of  St.  Mary's,  Tiffin.  For  several  years  he  also  had  charge  of 
all  the  stations  and  missions  in  Northwestern  Ohio,  covering 
the  same  territory  as  his  predecessor,  Father  Quinn. 

Rev.  Projectus  J.  Machebeufhad  charge  of  the  missions  in 
Sandusky,  Henry,  Ottawa,  Wood  and  Lucas  counties  from 
[839,  till  he  was  transferred  to  Sandusky,  as  first  resident 
pastor,  in  December,  1S40.  Fr  m  Sandusky  he  attended 
minions  in  Sandusky,  Erie  and  Huron  counties. 

In  [840  the  Revs.  Amadeus  Rappe  and  Louis  de  Goesbri- 
and  came  to  <  >hio.  The  latter  was  sent  by  Bishop  Purcell  to 
take    charge    of  St.    Louis'    congregation,    Louisville,    Stark 


1 8  THE  SECULAR   CLERGY. 

county.  Father  Rappe  resided  about  six  months  at  Chilli- 
cothe.  In  1841  he  was  sent  to  Toledo,  where  he  organized 
St.  Francis  de  Sales'  congregation,  and  attended  all  the  mis- 
sions and  stations  in  Lucas,  Paulding,  Williams,  Defiance  and 
Henry  counties.  In  1846  he  was  joined  by  Father  de  Goes- 
briand,  who  shared  with  him  the  privations  and  labors  con- 
nected with  this  difficult  charge.  Father  Rappe  remained  at 
Toledo  till  his  elevation  to  the  Episcopacy  in  1847. 

Rev.  Peter  McLaughlin  was  resident  pastor  at  Cleveland 
from  1840  to  1846.  Shortly  after  his  arrival  he  had  the 
interior  of  St.  Mary's  church,  on  the  Flats,  completed.  The 
church  was  dedicated  June  7,  1840.  Father  McLaughlin  also 
attended  missions  in  Lake,  Lorain  and  Summit  counties. 

Rev.  Maurice  Howard  was  on  the  mission  in  Northern 
Ohio  about  ten  years.  He  came  in  1842.  Among  his  charges 
were  Doylestown,  Cleveland  and  Tiffin.  He  also  attended 
missions  in  Wayne,  Summit,  Richland,  Portage,  Medina, 
Mahoning,  Lake,  Huron  and  Geauga  counties. 

In  1843  Rev.  John  J.  Doherty  was  appointed  pastor  of  St. 
John's,  Canton,  where  he  remained  about  five  years.  He  also 
attended  Massillon,  Canal  Fulton  and  Navarre. 

In  1844  the  Revs.  John  H.  Luhr  and  John  O.  Bredeick 
were  assigned  charges  in  Northern  Ohio.  Father  Luhr  was 
first  stationed  at  St.  John's,  Canton,  October,  1844.  In  1845  he^ 
organized  St.  Peter's,  Canton,  whose  pastor  he  was  till  1847. 
Father  Bredeick  was  the  founder  of  Delphos,  and  of  St.  John's 
congregation,  same  place.  In  1845  Rev.  Peter  Peudeprat 
arrived  from  France  and  was  sent  to  Sandusky  as  assistant 
to  Father  Machebeuf,  where  he  remained  till  the  following 
year,  when  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Louis'  church, 
Louisville,  Stark  count)'. 

From  1844  to  1846,  Rev.  Cornelius  Daley  was  first  resident 
pastor  of  St.  Vincent's,  Akron,  and  from  1846  to  1847  pastor 
at  Doylestown.  Rev.  Philip  Foley  was  stationed  at  Massillon 
in  1846,  and  attended  Wooster,  where  he  directed  the  build- 
ing of  the  first  church,  commenced  in  1847  and  finished  two 
years  later. 

es  the  above  mentioned  secular  priests  the  following 


THE  SECULAR  CLERGY.  19 

were  also  on  the  mission  in  Northern  Ohio  :  Revs.  Michael  A. 
Byrne,  at  Cleveland,  1845-47;  J-  Freigang,  at  Peru  and  Nor- 
walk,  1840-41;  H.  Herzog.at  Ft. Jennings,  1840;  J.Hoffmann, 
at  St.  John's,  Canton,  with  charge  of  Louisville  and  Doyles- 
town,  1836-37;  H.  D.  Juncker,  at  Canton  and  Tiffin,  1836-37; 
I.  Kearney,  who  attended  East  Liverpool  and  Wellsville  from 
Steubenville.  1845-46;  F.  X.  Roth,  at  Avon,  1845-47;  E.  Thien- 
pont,  at  Tiffin,  1834-35;  J.  V.  Conlan,  at  Dungannon,  in  1847. 

Very  Rev.  Stephen  T.  Badin  and  Very  Rev.  Edward  T. 
Collins  also  visited  some  of  the  missions  in  Northern  Ohio 
between  1835  and  1837,  the  former  ministering-  to  the  Cath- 
olics at  Canton,  Canal  Fulton,  Fremont  and  Tiffin,  the  latter 
to  those  of  Dungannon,  Toledo  and  along  the  Maumee  river. 

This  brief  narrative  contains  the  names  of  all  the  secular 
priests  who,  at  any  time  between  1824  and  1 847,  were  either 
stationed  in  Northern  Ohio,  or  attended  missions  located 
therein.  As  this  sketch  would  hardly  permit  more  than  the 
mere  mention  of  their  nanus,  the  reader  is  referred  to  the 
biographical  notices""'  of  these  priests,  many  of  whom  are 
deeply. enshrined  in  the  memory  of  those  who  knew  them  and 
their  disinterested  works  in  the  cause  of  religion. 

The  following  is  a  complete  list  of  secular  priests  stationed 
in  Northern  Ohio,  October,  1847,  when  the  Diocese  of  Cleve- 
land was  erected  :  Revs.  G.  Boehne,  Glandorf ;  J.  C).  Bredeick, 
Delphos  ;  James  Conlan  and  J.  Vincent  Conlan,  Dungannon  ; 
Louis  de  Goesbriand,  Toledo;  John  J.  Doherty,  St.  John's, 
Canton;  Philip  Foley,  Massillon;  Maurice  Howard,  Cleveland; 
J.  15.  Jacomet,  assistant,  St.  Peter's,  Canton;  John  H.  Luhr, 
St.  Peter's,  ( )anton;  Projectus  J.  Machebeuf,  Sandusky;  Casimir 
Mount,   Doylestown;   Peter  Peudeprat,  Louisville  ;   Amadeus 

Rappe,    Toledo      in  all,  fourteen  secular  priests. 

Of  the  above  mentioned  priests  only  tin-  following  are 
living:  The  Rt.  Rev.  L.  de  Goesbriand,  present  Bishop  ol 
Burlington;  tin-  Rev.  John  J.  Doherty,  pastor  of  St.  John's, 
Honesdale,  Pa,;  tin-  Rev, J.  B.  Jacomet,  residing  .a  Thompson, 
Seneca  county,  O.,  and  tin-  Rt.  Rev.  1'.  J.  Machebeuf,  Bishop 

of   I  Kiiver. 


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2o  THE  CHURCHES. 

V. 

CHURCHES. 

As  heretofore  stated,   Father  Fenwick  came  to   Northern 
Ohio  for  the  first  time  in  1817,  visiting  among  other  places  in 
Columbiana  and  Stark  counties,  the  few  Catholic  families  set- 
tled near  the  present  village  of  Dungannon.      Here  also,  under 
his  direction,    n   1820,  was  built   the  first    church  in    Northern 
Ohio.     It  was  a  small  brick  building,  dedicated  to  St.   Paul 
the  Apostle,  and  served  its  purpose  till  1849,  when  the  pres- 
ent church  in  Dungannon  was  erected.      Three  years  later  the 
Catholics  in    Canton  also   built  a  brick  church,  dedicated  to 
St.  John  the  Evangelist.     It  was  replaced  in  1872  by  the  pres- 
ent very  beautiful  church.     Until    1829,  the  above  were  the 
only  two  churches  in  Northern  Ohio,  when   a  third  was  built 
at  Chippewa,  near  the  present  village  of  Doylestown.     It  was 
primitive   in   style,  small   in   size  and   built  of  logs.     In    1831 
two  more  log  churches  were  erected,  one  at  Randolph,  Port- 
age county,  the  other  between   Lawrence  and  Canal   Fulton, 
in   Stark  county.       In   1832  a  small  brick  church  (St.  Mary's), 
was  opened  for  divine  service  at  Tiffin.       It  was  built   under 
directioni'of  the   Rev.  Edmund  Quinn,  and  was  enlarged  by  a 
frame  addition  built  during  the  pastorate  of  Father  McNamee 
in    1845.      In    1833  three   log  churches   were  erected,  viz.:   at 
Glandorf,  Putnam  county;  Navarre  (Bethlehem),  Stark  county, 
and  at  New  Riegel  (Wolfs  Creek),  Seneca  county.      In   1834 
the  Catholics  of  Peru   built  a  frame  church,   under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  Redemptorist  Father,  Rev.  F.  X.  Tschenhens,  who 
had  it  dedicated  to  St.  Alphonse,  the  founder  of  the  Redemp- 
torists.       In    1835    a    brick    church    was  built    at    Louisville, 
Stark  county,  and  another  (frame)  at  La  Porte,  Lorain  county. 
In    1836  a   frame    church  was  erected   at  Shelby  Settlement, 
Richland  county,  and  another  the  following  year  at  McCutch- 
enville,  Wyandot  county,  eight  miles  south  of  Tiffin.     In  1839 
a  log  church  was  erected  at  Thompson,  Seneca  county.     Cleve- 
land's first  church  (frame)  was  begun  in  1838,  and  opened   for 
divine  service   in    1840.     During  the  latter  year  the  Catholics 


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RELIGIOUS  COMMUNITIES.  21 

of  East   Liverpool,  Columbiana  county,  erected  a  neat  brick  . 
church. 

Five  churches  were  added  to  the  above  list  in  1841. 
Father  Rappe  secured  by  purchase  two  protestant  frame 
meeting  houses,  one  of  them  unfinished.  They  were  located 
at  Toledo  and  Maumee.  The  first  was  dedicated  to  St. 
Francis  de  Sales.  Log  churches  were  erected  at  La  Prairie, 
Sandusky  county,  and  New  Washington,  Crawford  county; 
also  one  of  wood,  near  Norwalk,  dedicated  to  St.  Peter.  The 
last  mentioned  church,  and  the  one  at  Maumee,  are  still  in 
use. 

In  1842  churches  were  built  at  Sandusky  (Holy  Angels'), 
Abbeyville,  Landeck,  Liberty,  Liverpool,  Sheffield,  and  St. 
Stephen's  Settlement,  the  first  of  stone,  the  last  of  wood;  the 
others  were  log  churches. 

In  1844  a  log  church  was  erected  at  Delphos  by  Father 
Bredeick,  and  frame  churches  at  Massillon  (St.  Mary's),  Akron 
(St.  Vincent's),  Defiance  (St.  John's),  and  Fremont  (St.  Ann's). 
At  French  Creek  an  old  frame  building  was  bought  and  fitted 
up  for  church  purposes  ;  it  served  as  such  till  the  erection  of 
the  present  edifice,  in  1 849. 

In  1845  brick  churches  were  built  at  Canton  (St.  Peter's). 
and  New  Berlin,  Stark  county;  Providence,  Lucas  county; 
Tiffin  (St.  Joseph's),  Seneca  county.  During  the  same  year  a 
frame  church  was  also  built  at  Harrisburg,  Stark  county.  In 
1846  a  log  church  was  erected  at  Bismarck  (Sherman),  and 
one  of  same  material,  in  1847,  at  New  Bavaria  (Poplar  Ridge). 
Total  number  of  churches  built  or  bought  between  1820  and 
October,  1847,  was  42,  viz:   stone,  1 ;  brick,  9;  frame,  15;  log,  17. 


VI. 

RELIGIOUS  COMMUNITIES. 

July,  1K44,  a  community  <>f  Sanguinist  Sisters  was  estab- 
lished at  Wolf's  Creek  New  Riegel  by  tin-  saintly  Father 
Brunner.  The  convent,  tin-  fust  in  Northern  Ohio,  was  a  log 
house.  The  community  numbered  but  three  sisters :  Mother 
Mar)  A.  Albrecht,  Sifter  Rose  and  a  novice. 


22  RELIGIOUS  COMMUNITIES. 

December,  1845,  Father  Brunner  also  founded  a  community 
at  Thompson,  and  here,  as  at  Wolfs  Creek,  a  log  house  was  the 
convent  building  and  contained  a  chapel.  As  soon  as  the  sisters 
were  established  in  their  respective  convent  homes  at  Wolf's 
Creek  and  Thompson,  they  at  once  began  the  perpetual  adora- 
tion of  our  Lord  in  the  Blessed  Eucharist,  as  directed  by  their 
Rule.  They  and  their  successors  have  ever  since  continued  day 
and  night  the  observance  of  this  part  of  their  Rule,  as  a  repara- 
tion for  the  insults  and  outrages  committed  against  our  blessed 
Lord  in  the  most  Holy  Sacrament  of  the  Altar. 

In  1846,  at  the  invitation  of  the  Rev.  Father  Rappe,  five 
Sisters  of  Notre  Dame  came  from  Cincinnati  to  Toledo,  there 
to  establish  a  convent  and  select  school.  Father  Rappe 
secured  for  them  a  small  frame  house  on  Cherry  street,  near 
the  present  site  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales'  Church.  This  they 
fitted  up  for  their  convent  and  academy. 

They  were  part  of  a  colony  that  had  come  from  Namur, 
Belgium,  to  Cincinnati,  with  Father  Rappe.  The  superioress 
of  the  Toledo  community  was  Mother  M.  Louise,  who  died  in 
1886  at  Cincinnati,  where  she  had  founded  the  present  flour- 
ishing community  in  1840.  Another  member  of  the  Toledo 
community  was  Sister  M.  Aloysius,  an  accomplished  Prussian 
lady,  who  later  was  appointed  superioress  of  the  Sisters  of 
Notre  Dame,  at  Roxbury,  Mass.  She  became  celebrated  for 
a  time  through  her  testimony  in  court  at  Boston,  in  connec- 
tion with  the  infamous  committee  appointed  in  1854  by  the 
anti-Catholic  legislature  of  Massachusetts  to  pry  into  the 
convents  of  Boston  and  neighborhood.  Her  testimony  made 
the  members  of  that  vile  committee  so  odious  in  the  eyes  of 
decent  and  fair-minded  Protestants  that  their  outrageous 
"prying"  was  never  repeated. 

In  1 848  the  sisters  of  the  Toledo  community  returned  to  Cin- 
cinnati, for  lack  of  support.  As  Toledo  at  this  time  was  but  a 
small  village  and  extremely  unhealthy,  and  the  number  of  board- 
ing pupils  and  day  scholars  attending  the  sisters'  academy  very 
limited,  it  was  thought  best  by  the  superioress  of  the  Mother 
House  at  Cincinnati,  to  recall  the  sisters,  four  of  whom  return- 
ed, the  fifth  having  fallen  a  victim  to  the  dread  Maumee  fever. 


BISHOPS  FENWICK  AND  PURCELL.  23 

VII. 
BISHOPS  FENWICK  AND  PURCELL. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Edward  Ecnwick  was  consecrated  first 
bishop  of  Cincinnati,  January  13,  1822,  and  had  as  part  of  his 
jurisdiction  the  whole  of  the  state  of  Ohio.  When  he  took 
charge  of  his  diocese  there  was  but  one  church  in  Northern 
Ohio — near  Dungannon,  and  no  priest  resided  within  that 
limit  of  territory.  At  the  time  of  his  death,  September,  1832, 
there  were  six  churches,  viz.:  near  Dungannon,  Doylestown 
and  Canal  Fulton,  and  at  Canton,  Randolph  and  Tiffin.  Of 
resilient  priests  there  were  three — at  Canton,  Dungannon  and 
Tiffin. 

Very    Rev.    F.    Reze    administered  the  diocese  from   the 
time   of  Bishop    Eenwick's  death   till  the  advent  of  Rt.   Rev. 
John    B.  Pureed,   who  at  the  age  of  33  years  was  consecrated 
second  bishop  of  Cincinnati,  October  13,  1833.      He  had  juris- 
diction   of  Northern    Ohio   till   October,    1847,  during    which 
time  Catholicity  made  wonderful  strides   in  this  part  of  the 
state.     A  large   influx  of  emigrants  necessitated  the  building 
of  churches  and  the  establishing  of  missions  and  stations  in 
nearly  every  count)-  in  Northern  ( )hio,  notably  in  Columbiana, 
Erie,  Lorain,  Lucas,    Portage,  Putnam,   Sandusky  and   Seneca 
counties.      It  is  true  these   churches  were  not  remarkable   for 
architecture,   material  or  size,  but    they  served   their  purpose 
and    accommodated   the   faithful,    who    frequented    them   with 
perhaps   more  fervor  and  piety  than  do  their  descendants  the 
beautiful    and    costly    temples    since    erected    in   their    stead. 
Bishop   Purcell  visited  Northern  Ohio  at  frequent   intervals, 
and   always  with    gratifying  results.       Hut  In-    soon  found    his 
vast  diocese  too  large  for  his  persona]  attention.     As  early  as 
December,     1841,    in     an     interesting    communication    to    the 

tholic  Telegraph,  describing  one  of  his  visits  to  Northern 
(  >hio,  he  writes:  "  It  would  require  the  constant  attention  of 
two  bishops  and  a  hundred  priests  *  -  *  to  preserve  tin- 
faithful,  convert  tin-  erring,  reclaim  the  sinful,  found  schools, 
and  build  churches  necessary  over  such  an  extensive  ten  itory." 


24  BISHOPS  FEN  WICK  AND  PUR  CELL. 

He  petitioned  the  Holy  See  to  be  relieved  of  part  of  his 
jurisdiction.  His  petition  was  heard,  and  as  a  result  the 
present  Diocese  of  Cleveland  was  erected  in  1847.  Father 
Rappe,  "  the  missionary  of  the  Maumee,"  was  appointed  the 
first  bishop  of  the  new  diocese,  and  consecrated  as  such  at 
Cincinnati  by  Bishop  Purcell,  October  10,  1847. 


:p^:r,t  ii. 


Diocese  of  Cleveland. 


1847-1887- 

I. 
TERRITORY  OF  THE  DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND. 

The  territory  assigned  by  the  Holy  See  to  the  Diocese  of 
Cleveland,  April  23,  1847,  was  "all  that  part  of  the  state  of 
Ohio  lying  north  of  40  degrees  and  41  minutes."  As  this 
line  intersected  several  counties,  it  was  thought  best  by  the 
bishops  of  the  dioceses  of  Cincinnati  and  Cleveland  to  peti- 
tion the  Holy  Sec  to  establish  the  limits  between  these  two 
dioceses  by  county  lines,  as  appears  from  the  following  agree- 
ment, published  in  the  Catholic    Telegraph,  January  11,  [849: 

"  In  order  to  prevent  any  misunderstanding  or  uncertainty 
with  regard  to  the  extent  of  jurisdiction,  as  defined  only  by 
the  geographical  line  of  40  degrees  and  41  minutes,  the  Ivt. 
Rev.  Bishops  of  these  two  dioceses  have  agreed  anion-  them- 
selves, and  they  direct  us  to  publish,  that  the  counties  of 
Mercer,  Auglaize,  Hardin,  Marion,  Morrow,  Knox,  Tuscara- 
was, Carroll  and  Jefferson,  which  belong  to  the  diocese  of 
Cincinnati,  shall  constitute  the  northern  boundary  of  the 
diocese  ol  Cincinnati  ;  that  all  counties  north  oi  those  just 
11. uned,  shall  compose  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  Holmes 
county,  for  the  greatest  part  south  of  the  line  above  traced,  is 
by  mutual  consenl  assigned  to  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  Any 
new  counties  that  may  hereafter  be  formed  by  the  authority 
..1  the   legislature,  will   belong   to  thai    diocese   in   which  the 


26  BISHOP  RAPPE. 

largest  portion  of  them  will  be  situated.  Application  will  be 
made  as  early  as  possible  to  the  Holy  See  to  sanction  this 
arrangement." 

When  the  Diocese  of  Columbus  was  erected,  in  1868, 
Holmes  county  was  included  within,  its  jurisdiction.  All  the 
other  counties  embraced  within  the  above  described  limits 
have  since  been  under  jurisdiction  of  the  diocese  of  Cleve- 
land, viz.:  Allen,  Ashland,  Ashtabula,  Columbiana,  Crawford, 
Cuyahoga,  Defiance,  Erie,  Fulton,  Geauga,  Hancock,  Henry, 
Huron,  Lake,  Lorain,  Lucas,  Mahoning,  Medina,  Ottawa, 
Paulding,  Portage,  Putnam,  Richland,  Sandusky,  Seneca, 
Stark,  Summit,  Trumbull,  Van  Wert,  Wayne,  Williams,  Wood 
and  Wyandot,  in  all  thirty-three  counties,  comprising  about 
one-third  of  Ohio.  The  territory  of  the  diocese  extends  from 
the  west  line  of  Pennsylvania  to  the  east  line  of  Indiana,  and 
from  the  southern  shore  of  Lake  Erie,  about  75  miles  south. 


II. 

BISHOP  RAPPE— 1847-1870. 

In  order  to  present  in  succinct  form  the  growth  and  devel- 
opment of  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  its  history  will  be  given 
chronologically,  and  by  decades  of  years.  Besides  the  erec- 
tion of  churches  and  the  founding  of  religious,  charitable  and 
-educational  institutions,  only  the  more  important  events  in 
connection  with'the  history  of  the  diocese  will  be  mentioned; 
to  do  more  would  exceed  the  limits  of  this  sketch.  In  giving 
dates  of  the  erection  of  churches,  reference  is  had  only  to  first 
churches  built  by  congregations.  In  many  cases  these  were 
built  long  after  such  congregations  received  attendance  as 
stations,  as  will  be  shown  in  the  "list  of  churches,  &c."  This 
remark  holds  also  for  institutions  of  charity,  &c.  Where 
notably  fine,  large  and  costly  churches  have  replaced  former 
structures,  these  will  also  receive  due  mention. 

A.— 1847-1857. 

The   Rt.   Rev.   Amadeus    Rappe   took   possession   of   the 
diocese  of  Cleveland  as  its  first  bishop  a  few  days  after  his 


DIOCESE   OF  CLEVELAND.  27 

consecration,  which  had  taken  place  at  Cincinnati,  October  10, 
1847.  On  his  arrival  at  Cleveland,  his  episcopal  city,  he 
found  but  one  church,  a  frame  building  located  on  Columbus 
street,  corner  of  Girard.  It  had  been  dedicated  June  7,  1840, 
to  "Our  Lady  of  the  Lake,"  since  1849  known  as  St.  Mary's 
Church,  on  the  Flats. 

October,  1847,  Rev.  Maurice  Howard  was  the  only  priest 
stationed  in  Cleveland.  Besides  having  pastoral  charge  of 
the  church  011  the  Flats,  he  also  attended  a  number  of  mis- 
sions in  Cuyahoga  and  neighboring  counties.  Within  the 
limits  of  his  diocese  the  Bishop  found  forty-two  churches., 
attended  by  twenty-one  priests,  of  whom  seven  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Sanguinist  society.  The  Catholic  population  of 
the  diocese  was  estimated  at  this  time  to  be  about  10,000. 

There  were  also  two  small  convents  of  Sisters  of  the  same 
society,  viz.:  at  New  Riegel  and  Thompson,  and  an  academy 
and  convent  at  Toledo,  belonging  to  the  Sisters  of  Notre 
Dame,  whose  Mother  House  was  at  Cincinnati. 

For  some  mouths  the  Bishop  resided  in  a  rented  house- 
near  the  Haymarket.  In  1848  he  bought  several  lots  on 
Bond  street,  corner  of  St.  Clair,  on  which  were  located  a  large 
brick  building  and  several  frame  houses.  The  brick  building 
was  fitted  up  as  his  episcopal  residence. 

Within  a  very  short  time  after  Bishop  Rappe's  arrival  in 
Cleveland,  he  impressed  all  with  his  indefatigable  zeal  and 
great  earnestness.  As  early  as  March,  1848,  the  Cleveland 
Herald^  a  secular  paper,  at  no  time  during  its  long  existence 
over-friendly  toward  Catholics,  published  in  its  issue  of  March 
[6th,  the  following  item  concerning  Bishop  Rappc.  and  his 
work-  in  the  cause  of  total  abstinence,  of  which  he  had  been 
tor  some  years  a  practical  and  consistent  advocate: 

"  Bishop  Rappe  is  just  what  every  man  who  has  important 
enterprises  in  hand  should  be,  a  real  w  orkingman.  1  lis  labors, 
too,  an-  for  tin-  benefit  of  others  the  present  and  future — the 
temporal,  social  and  moral  improvement  of  tin-  people  ol  his 
charge.  Strict  sobriety,  industry  ami  economy  are  virtues 
which  he  inculcates  with  hearty  good  will     the  sure  steppi 


28  BISHOP  RAPPE. 

stones  to  individual,  family  and  associated  success.  Temper- 
ance supports  the  superstructure  and  now  over  five  hundred 
cold-water  men  are  enrolled  in  the  Cleveland  Catholic  Tem- 
perance Society." 

January,  1 848,  he  appointed  as  his  vicar  general  the  Very 
Rev.  Louis  de  Goesbriand,  who  had  been  his  co-laborer  in 
Northwestern  Ohio  for  two  years.  Father  de  Goesbriand  was 
stationed  in  Cleveland,  and  had  as  his  assistant  the  Rev.  M. 
Kreusch,  C.  PP.  S.,  the  Rev.  Maurice  Howard  having  been 
sent  to  Tiffin  as  pastor  of  St.  Mary's. 

During  the  same  year  Bishop  Rappe  opened  a  small  semi- 
nar)- in  a  one-story  frame  building,  formerly  a  stable,  back  of 
his  residence  on  Bond  street.  Father  de  Goesbriand  was  its 
first  superior.  Among  the  young  men  first  to  apply  for 
admission  as  seminarists  were  Messrs.  James  Monahan,  A. 
Berger,  Peter  Kreusch,  Thomas  J.  Walsh,  M.  O'Sullivan,  E. 
W.  J.  Lindesmith,  F.  McGann,  N.  Roupp,  W.  O'Connor,  and 
F.  M.  Boff,  all  of  whom  became  priests.  In  1849  the  Rev.  A. 
Caron  succeeded  Father  de  Goesbriand  as  superior  of  this 
humble  seminary. 

The  Catholic  population  of  Cleveland  rapidly  increased 
shortly  after  the  erection  of  the  diocese,  owing  to  a  large 
immigration  from  Ireland  and  Germany.  The  Bishop  finding 
it  of  imperative  necessity  to  build  a  church  for  the  accom- 
modation of  his  growing  flock  (estimated  in  1848  at  about 
4,000)  in  the  episcopal  city,  proposed  to  make  the  new  church 
his  cathedral,  and  to  assign  St.  Mary's  on  the  Flats  to  the 
Germans. 

Sunday,  October  29,  1848,  the  corner-stone  of  the  present 
Cathedral  was  laid.  The  Cleveland  Herald  of  October  30, 
1848,  makes  mention   of  the  ceremony  in  the  following  item  : 

"  The  ceremony  of  laying  the  corner  stone  of  the  cathedral 
on  Erie  street  was  witnessed  yesterday  by  a  very  large  con- 
course of  people.  At  one  o'clock  a  numerous  procession  was 
formed  at  St.  Mary's  Church  and  marched  to  the  site  of  the 
cathedral.  The  ceremonies  were  conducted  by  Bishop  Timon 
of  Buffalo,  Bishop  LeFevre  of  Detroit,  and  Bishop  Rappe 
of    Cleveland,  assisted    by  Vicar-General    de   Goesbriand    of 


DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND.  29 

Cleveland,  Rev.  P.  J.  Machebeuf  of  Sandusky,  Rev.  J.  H.  Luhr 
of  Canton,  and  the  students  of  the  theological  seminary  in  this 
city.  An  eloquent  address  was  delivered  by  Bishop  Timon, 
and  a  discourse  in  German  by  Rev.  Mr.  Luhr. 

"The  cathedral,  when  completed,  will  be  a  noble  edifice 
and  an  ornament  to  the  city.  The  dimensions  will  be  170 
feet  by  75,  rising  50  feet  from  the  water  table  to  the  eaves. 
The  building  is  to  be  of  brick,  and  the  style  of  architecture 
will  combine  strength  with  beaut)." 

In  November,  [848,  the  first  diocesan  synod  was  held,  with 
fifteen  priests  in  attendance.  The  second  synod  was  held  in 
1852,  and  the  third  in   1854. 

September,  1849,  Bishop  Rappe  went  to  Europe,  his  object 
being  to  solicit  aid  in  his  native  France  for  the  new  cathedral 
then  in  process  of  erection;  also  to  secure  priests  and  Sisters 
to  aid  him  in  his  work.  During  his  absence  the  Very  Rev. 
Father  de  Goesbriand,  V.  G.,  administered  the  diocese.  The 
Bishop  succeeded  in  obtaining  generous  assistance  from  his 
countrymen,  and  in  securing  several  priests  and  seminarists, 
as  also  a  band  of  devoted  Ursulines,  for  whom  the  present 
convent  on  Euclid  avenue  had  been  purchased  from  Judge 
Cowles  in  1841;.  He  returned  from  Europe  in  August,  1850. 
Besides  visiting  his  diocese  he  also  superintended  the  build- 
in- of  the  cathedral,  and  had  the  great  satisfaction  oi  having 
it   consecrated,  and   opened   for  divine   service,  November  7, 

[852. 

As  above  stated,  Bishop  Rappe  was  a  strong  advocate  of 
total  abstinence,  having  seen  the  disastrous  iv>ults  of  intem- 
perance whilst  engaged  on  the  mission  in  Toledo  and  along 
the  Maumee  Valley.  In  March,  [851,  he  published  a  vigorous 
pastoral  letter  on  this  subject,  of  which  the  following  is  an 
extract: 

••  Among  tin-  evils  which  prevail,  and  of  which  the  progi 
and  consequences  are  mosl  alarming,  is  one  which  we  have 
observed  for  years,  ami  more  especially  during  our  last  visita- 
tion; it  is  one  which  fills  with  sorrow  tin-  hearts  of  your  pas- 
tors and  counteracts  all  their  efforts  to  promote  your  spiritual 
welfare;    it    is  one    which  is    more  frightful    than  an)    calamity 


3o  BISHOP  RAPPE. 

which  could  befall  you;  which  threatens  not  only  to  put  an 
end  to  all  decent  observance  of  the  Sunday,  but  to  eradicate 
piety  and  to  destroy  every  sentiment  that  elevates  and  enno- 
bles the  Christian  soul,  to  bring  inevitable  ruin  upon  reason, 
honor  and  fortune — the  drinking  shop,  the  sink  wherein  all 
that  is  good  is  buried." 

During  the  months  of  July  and  August,  of  the  same  year, 
on  invitation  of  the  Bishop,  Father  Mat  hew  the  apostle  of 
total  abstinence,  delivered  a  series  of  lectures  and  sermons  in 
Cleveland  and  other  important  cities  and  towns  in  this  dio- 
cese. Thousands  took  the  pledge  of  total  abstinence  from 
Father  Mathew.  His  labors,  as  those  also  of  Bishop  Rappe 
in  this  regard,  were  blessed  with  most  gratifying  results. 

October  30,  1853,  Father  de  Goesbriand  was  elevated  to 
the  espiscopacy  as  first  Bishop  of  Burlington,  Vt.,  which 
important  position  he  still  holds  with  eminent  success.  The 
Rev.  James  Conlan  succeeded  him  as  vicar-general  and  acted 
as  such  till  1870. 

Between  1847  and  1857  churches  were  erected  in  the  fol- 
lowing places  :  1848 — Delaware  Bend,  Six  Mile  Woods  ; 
1849 — Marshallville,  Wooster  ;  1850 — Archbold,  Painesville  ; 
185  1 — Fostoria,  Independence,  Sheffield;  1852 — Cleveland 
(Cathedral),  Lima,  Summitville  ;  1853 — Rockport  (St.  Pat- 
rick's), Sandusky  (St.  Mary's),  Toledo  (St.  Mary's),  Youngs- 
town  (St.  Columba's);  1854 — Cleveland  (St.  Patrick's),  Elyria, 
Massillon  (St.  Joseph's),  Toledo  (St.  Joseph's);  1855 — Gabon 
(St.  Joseph's);  1856 — Berea  (St.  Mary's),  Berwick,  Cleveland, 
(Immaculate  Conception  ;  i.  c,  the  Church  of  the  Nativity, 
built  in  1848  as  a  "chapel  of  ease,"  and  situated  in  the  rear 
of  the  present  cathedral,  was  removed  thence  to  Superior 
street  near  Lyman);  Findlay,  Napoleon.  The  total  number 
of  churches  erected  during  this  period  was  twenty-six. 

Whilst  directing  and  encouraging  the  organization  of  mis- 
sions and  congregations  and  the  erection  of  churches  for  their 
accommodation,  Bishop  Rappe  also  provided  for  the  care  of 
orphans  and  the  education  of  the  young,  all  under  charge  of 
devoted  Sisters.  To  this  end  he  authorized  the  establishing 
of  a  convent  of  Sanguinist  Sisters  at  Glandorf,  in  1848.      In 


DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND.  31 

the  fall  of  1850  the  Ursuline  Academy  on  Euclid  avenue, 
Cleveland,  was  opened  and  has  ever  since  enjoyed  the  patron- 
age and  confidence  of  the  public,  Catholic  and  Protestant. 
The  same  is  to  be  said  of  the  Ursuline  Academy,  established 
at  Toledo  in  1854.  St.  Mary's  Orphan  Asylum  for  girls  and 
St.  Vincent's  Asylum  for  boys  were  founded  in  Cleveland 
(185  1),  the  former  in  charge  of  the  Ladies  of  the  Sacred  Heart 
of  Mary,  the  latter  in  charge  of  the  Sisters  of  Charity  of  St. 
Augustine,  a  community  founded  by  Bishop  Rappe,  with 
assistance  of  Mother  M.  Ursula,  of  sainted  memory.  She  was 
known  in  the  world  as  Miss  C.  Bissonette.  In  1855  the  Grey 
Nuns  of  Montreal  established  at  Toledo  an  orphanage  for 
boys  and  girls,  which  is  known  as  St.  Vincent's  Asylum. 

September,  1850,  the  Bishop  bought  a  fine  property  on 
Lake  street,  near  Dodge,  known  as  "  Spring  Cottage."  The 
frame  building  on  the  large  plat  of  ground  was  fitted  up  as  a 
seminary,  which  was  opened  in  November  of  the  same  year, 
with  Father  Caron  as  superior.  During  the  summer  of  [853 
the  north  wing  of  the  present  building  was  erected,  and  in 
1859,  owing  to  the  rapidly  increasing  number  of  seminarists, 
the  present  main  or  central  portion  of  the  seminary  was  built. 

To  give  young  men  an  opportunity  to  receive  a  college 
education  under  Catholic  auspices,  Bishop  Rappe  purchased 
in  [854  an  eligible  property  on  the  West  Side,  Cleveland,  near 
St.  Patrick's  church.  The  incomplete  frame  buildings  on  the 
property  were  remodeled  to  serve  the  purpose  of  their  pur- 
chase. September  of  the  same  year  they  were  opened  under 
the  name  of  St.  John's  College.  This  institution  had,  however, 
a  fitful  existence,  owing  to  lack  of  patronage,  and  was  finally 
closed   in    lS;<). 

B.  -1857-1867. 

The  second  decade  of  Bishop  Rappe's  administration  is 
remarkable  for  the  large  number  of  churches  built,  many  ol 
them  handsome  and  spacious  edifices.     The  following  is  a  list 

of  places    in    which    churches  were    erected:    [857      Cleveland 

St.  Bridget's  and  St.  Peter's;  [858  Fremont  (St.  Joseph's), 
Millcrsville.  Norwalk,  (St.  Mary's,)  Olmsted,  Wellington; 
1859     Bellevue,  Big  Springs,  ( Irawfordsville,  South  Thompson; 


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3  2  BISHOP  RAPPE. 

i860 — Alliance.  Ashtabula,  Cleveland  (St.  Augustine's,)  Hud- 
son, Junction,  Port  Clinton,  Prout's,  Rockport  (St.  Mary's); 
1861 — Crestline,  Euclid,  Kalida,  Kelley's  Island,  North  Ridge, 
Ottoville,  Stryker,  Toussaint;  1862 — Akron  (St.  Bernard's), 
Bucyrus,  Cleveland  (Holy  Rosary — since  1881  known  as  Holy 
Name;  St.  Joseph's),  Clyde,  Monroeville,  Ravenna,  Vermillion, 
Woodville;  1863— Ashland,  Toledo  (St.  Patrick's);  1864— 
Conneaut,  Convoy,  Florence,  French  Settlement,  Medina, 
Niles,  Royalton,  St.  Patrick's  Settlement,  Strasburg,  Upper 
Sandusky,  Warren;  1865— Cleveland  (St.  Mary's  of  the 
Assumption),  Grafton,  Kirby,  Marshallville,  Milan;  1866 — 
Mud  Creek,  Shelby — total,  56  churches. 

In  1857  Bishop  Rappe  convoked  the  fourth  diocesan  synod 
resulting  in  much  wholesome  legislation.  One  of  the  statutes 
promulgated  makes  it  obligatory  on  all  congregations,  finan- 
cially and  numerically  able,  to  support  parochial  schools.  This 
law  gave  new  impulse  to  the  parochial  school  system,  encour- 
aged in  most  earnest  manner  by  Bishop  Rappe  almost  imme- 
diately after  he  came  to  Cleveland. 

In  i860  Bishop  Rappe  paid  his  first  decennial  visit  to 
Rome.  During  his  absence  the  Very  Rev.  James  Conlan,  V.  G., 
was  administrator  of  the  diocese.  Two  years  later  he  again 
went  to  Rome  to  assist  at  the  canonization  of  the  Japanese 
Martyrs,  to  which  ceremony  many  of  the  American  bishops  had 
been  specially  invited  by  Pius  IX.  Very  Rev.  A.  Caron,  V.  G., 
administered  the  affairs  of  the  diocese  during  the  Bishop's 
absence. 

In  1862  St.  Joseph's  Asylum  for  orphan  girls  was  opened 
on  Woodland  avenue,  Cleveland,  to  relieve  the  crowded  con- 
dition of  St.  Mary's  Asylum  on  Harmon  street.  In  1863 
Bishop  Rappe  introduced  into  the  diocese  the  Sisters  of  the 
Humility  of  Mary,  and,  by  special  agreement  with  Bishop 
O'Connor,  of  Pittsburgh,  located  them  on  a  large  tract  of  land 
near  New  Bedford,  Pa.,  where  they  founded  a  convent  and  an 
orphan  asylum. 

In  1863  the  Ursulines  of  Cleveland  established  a  mission 
at  Tiffin,  placing  it  in  charge  of  Mother  M.  Joseph  as  superi- 
oress.     In  a  few  years  it  grew  to  a  prosperous  community,  its 


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academy  meeting-  with  public  favor  almost  from  the  very 
opening. 

In  1865,  at  the  solicitation  and  with  the  generous  aid  of 
Cleveland's  citizens,  irrespective  of  creed,  Bishop  Rappe 
opened  Charity  Hospital — the  first  public  hospital  built  in 
Cleveland. 

The  Bishop  established  St.  Louis'  College  at  Louisville, 
Stark  county,  in  1866,  to  replace  St.  Mary's  College  and  Pre- 
paratory Seminary,  Cleveland,  opened  in  September,  i860.  It 
was  placed  in  charge  of  secular  priests.  The  following  year 
its  management  was  transferred  to  the  Basilian  Fathers  of 
Sandwich,  Canada,  but  was  closed  in  1873  for  want  of  support. 

C. —  1 867- 1 877. 

For  the  fourth  time  Bishop  Rappe  went  to  Furope — in  the 
fall  of  1867 — the  Very  Rev.  Vicar  General  Caron  administer- 
ing the  diocese  during  his  three  months'  absence.  Besides 
visiting  his  native  country  the  Bishop  also  went  to  Rome  to 
attend  to  some  affairs  in  connection  with  his  diocese. 

During  the  first  three  years  of  the  third  decade  of  Bishop 
Rappe's  administration  churches  were  erected  in  the  following 
places  :  1867 — Cleveland  (St.  Wenceslas'),  Hubbard,  Landeck, 
Reed,  Rootstown,  Wellsville,  West  Brookfield  ;  [868— Edger- 
ton,  Kent,  Leetonia,  Marblehead,  Mentor,  Norwalk  (St.  Paul's), 
St.  Mary's  Corners,  Toledo  (Immaculate  Conception);  1869— 
Cleveland  (St.  Malachy's,  St.  Stephen's),  Galion  (St.  Patrick's), 
Jefferson,  Madison,  North  Amherst,  Willoughby,  Youngstown 
(St.  Joseph's),  in  all  23  churches. 

St.   Francis' Orphan  Asylum  and   Home  for  the  Aged  was 

iblished  at  Tiffin,  in    [867,  under  the  direction  of  the  Rev. 

Joseph    L.    Bihn,    who    applied    his    patrimony    and    savings 

towards  the  purchase  of  the  lands  and  the  erection  of  build- 

used  for  this  excellent  institution.     He  also  established, 

in  [868,  a  sisterh I  of  the  Third  Order  ol  St.  Francis,  which 

has  ch  of  the  domestic  affairs  of  the  asylum  and  home. 

Some  ol  the  sisters  are  also  en  as  teachers  in  a  number 

of  parochial  schools  in  the  diocese. 


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BISHOP  RAPPE. 


In  1867"  Bishop  Rappe  introduced  the  Franciscan  Fathers 
of  Teutopolis,  111.,  into  the  diocese,  and  gave  them  pastoral 
charge  of  St.  Joseph's  Church,  Cleveland.  In  the  following 
year  they  erected  their  present  convent  and  chapel,  corner  of 
Chapel  and  Hazen  streets. 

St.  Mary's  Church,  Toledo,  was  given  in  charge  of  the 
Jesuit  Fathers  of  the  Provincial  House  of  Buffalo,  in  1869. 

Bishop  Rappe  invited  the  Sisters  of  the  Good  Shepherd,  of 
Cincinnati,  to  establish  a  house  of  their  Order  in  Cleveland. 
The  invitation  was  accepted  in  1869.  Their  convent  was  a 
frame  building  on  Lake  street,  situated  on  a  large  lot  which 
had  been  secured  for  them  by  Bishop  Rappe.  Here  they 
remained  until  the  completion  of  their  present  large  building, 
in  1875.  Their  silent,  saving  work  in  behalf  of  fallen,  erring 
woman  has  resulted  in  untold  good  and  has  forced  recognition 
even  from  an  anti-Catholic  public. 

The  paternal  heart  of  good  Bishop  Rappe  next  prompted 
him  to  provide  for  a  class  of  unfortunates,  neglected  and 
rejected  by  a  cold,  selfish  world — the  aged  poor.  To  give 
them  shelter  and  needed  care  he  had  the  Little  Sisters  of 
the  Poor  establish  a  Home  for  them  on  Perry  street,  in 
1870.  This  charitable  work  soon  met  with  generous  support 
on  the  part  of  the  citizens  of  Cleveland,  irrespective  of  creed. 
In  a  few  years  the  old  buildings  first  bought  had  to  be  enlarged 
and  in  part  replaced  by  others  more  commodious  and  better 
adapted,  so  large  was  the  number  of  applicants. 

October,  1869,  Bishop  Rappe  again  went  to  Rome  this 
time  to  attend  the  Vatican  Council  which  was  opened  Decem- 
ber 8,  of  same  year. 

Whilst  in  Rome  he  found  that  the  years  of  opposition  on 
the  part  of  some,  in  regard  to  the  administration  of  his  dio- 
cese, had  crystallized  in  charges  preferred  against  him  to  the 
Holy  See.  Rather  than  further  contend  with  his  opponents, 
and  unwilling  any  longer  to  carry  the  burden  of  his  episcopal 
labors,  which  he  found  so  little  appreciated  on  the  part  of  a 
few,  he  concluded  to  resign  the  responsible  and  burdensome 
office   of  bishop   he  had  borne  for  twenty-three  years    amid 


DIOCESE  OE  CLEVELAND.  35 

trials,  difficulties  and  mental  worry  known  to  God  alone. 
Where  others  would  have  met  the  enemy  and  contested  posi- 
tion in  the  face  of  opposition  and  strife,  he  thought  best  to 
lay  down  crozier  and  mitre,  thus  to  have  peace  in  the  evening 
of  his  life.  This  he  believed  himself  the  more  constrained  to 
do,  as  in  his  advanced  age,  sixty-eight  years,  he  felt  himself 
physically  too  weak  to  administer,  with  satisfaction  to  him- 
self, his  large  and  rapidly  growing  diocese.  Added  to  this, 
he  found  his  sight  greatly  impaired;  in  fact,  he  had  lost  the 
use  of  his  right  eye.  He  resigned  August  22,  1870,  and 
retired  to  the  diocese  of  Burlington,  Vt.,  where  he  resumed 
the  role  of  a  missionary,  so  familiar  to  him. 

For  obvious  reasons  the  details  of  this  sad  and  painful 
chapter  in  the  history  of  Bishop  Rappe's  saintly  and  self-sac- 
rificing life  are  not  yet  for  publication.  This  will  be  the  task 
of  the  future  historian  of  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  and  the 
writer  of  Bishop  Rappe's  life  and  labors. 


III. 
VERY    REV.   EDWARD   HANNIN,  ADMINISTRATOR. 

Sede    I  racante — 1870- 1872. 

Within  a  few  days  after  Bishop  Rappe's  resignation,  the 
Most  Rev.  Archbishop  Purcell  appointed  the  Very  Rev.  E. 
Il.mnin  as  administrator  of  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  During 
his  term  of  office,  which  lasted  till  April,  1872,  churches  were 
erected  in  the  following  places:  1870 — Antwerp,  Briar  Hill, 
Van  Wert;  [871  -Cleveland  (Annunciation,  St.  Columbkill's 
—closed  as  a  paiish  in  [872,  I  [oly  Family — St.  Edward's  since 
(886);  Loudonville,  Mantua,  Sandusky  (Sts.  Peter  and  Paul-  , 
Toledo  St.  Louis');— total,  ten  congregations  organized  and 
churches  built. 

For  ordination^,  bishops  of  the  neighboring  dioceses  were 
invited.  Anion-  them  was  the  Rt.  Rev.  John  11.  Luers, 
Bishop  of  Fort  Wayne.  June  29,  1871,  this  worthy  prelate 
conferred  Holy  Orders  in  the  seminary  chapel.  After  the 
ceremony  he  started   for  the  Union  depot,  preferring  to  walk 


3  6  BISHOP  GILMOUR. 

rather  than  to  take  the  carriage  which  had  been  placed  at  his 
service.  Reaching  the  corner  of  St.  Clair  and  Bond  streets, 
he  fell  to  the  pavement,  stricken  with  apoplexy.  He  was 
carried  to  the  Bishop's  house,  near  by,  where  he  expired  in  a 
few  moments. 

Beyond  a  suit  of  injunction,  in  connection  with  the  build- 
ing of  a  church,  begun  by  the  congregation  of  St.  Bridget's, 
Cleveland,  without  proper  authorization,  nothing  of  special 
note  occurred  during  Father  Hannin's  administration,  except 
that  he  had  not  as  peaceful  a  regime  as  he  could  have  wished, 
or  the  good  of  religion  demanded.  No  one  was  better  pleased 
than  he  when  he  was  relieved  of  his  responsible  post  of  duty, 
by  the  advent  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Gilmour,  in  April,  1872. 


IV. 

BISHOP  GILMOUR,   1872-1887. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Richard  Gilmour,  present  and  second  Bishop 
of  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  was  consecrated  at  Cincinnati, 
April  14,  1872.  Within  a  few  days  after  his  consecration  he 
took  possession  of  his  episcopal  see. 

He  soon  found  that  the  disturbance  and  opppsition  which 
had  caused  many  a  heart-ache  to  his  predecessor,  Bishop 
Rappe,  and  which  had  made  the  administration  of  Very  Rev. 
Father  Hannin  anything  but  pleasant,  had  permeated  the 
diocese  to  a  large  extent.  Firmness  and  judgment  were 
needed  to  put  the  disturbed  elements  to  rights.  Bishop 
Gilmour  felt  the  difficulty  of  his  position  as  well  as  the  gravity 
of  his  impending  work. 

But  he  also  found  in  the  diocese  at  large  a  generous  spirit 
among  the  laity,  a  willing,  energetic  clergy,  and  a  readiness 
to  second  any  effort  for  the  advancement  of  diocesan  interests. 
Often  he  had  rather  to  repress  than  foster  activity  in  matters 
pertaining  to  the  material  growth  of  the  diocese. 

November,  1872,  he  convoked  a  synod  of  his  clergy — the 
first  during  his  administration,  and  the  fifth  since  the  organi- 
zation of  the  diocese.  In  this  synod  much  of  the  present 
legislation  was  enacted.      It  also  embodied  considerable  of  the 


DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND.  37 

legislation  of  the  previous  synods,  notably  that  of  1868. 
Among'  the  diocesan  laws  enacted,  were  those  urging  anew 
the  necessity  of  parochial  schools,  regulating  the  financial 
affairs  of  congregations,  assessing  congregations  for  the  sup- 
port of  seminary,  etc.,  (Diocesan  Fund),  and  for  the  support 
of  sick  and  disabled  priests,  (Infirm  Priests'  Fund).  The  latter 
fund  had  been  established  some  years  previous,  but  it  was  now 
found  necessary  to  modify  and  change  many  of  the  regulations 
governing  it,  so  as  to  place  it  on  a  firm  basis.  This  it  has 
maintained  ever  since.  With  additional  and  needed  changes 
made  from  time  to  time  in  its  management,  the  Infirm  Priests' 
Fund  is  now  in  excellent  condition. 

March,  1873,  Bishop  Gilmour  published  his  first  pastoral 
letter.  It  aroused  the  latent  bigotry  of  the  country,  especially 
of  Cleveland,  the  hot-bed  of  Puritanism  and  anti-Catholic 
hatred.  Not  that  the  Bishop  published  "  doctrines  strange 
and  new."  but  that  he  dared  to  publish  what  he  did.  He  took 
strong  ground  against  the  public  school  system,  and  urged 
upon  his  people  the  necessity  of  establishing  and  maintaining 
their  own  schools.  He  also  insisted  that  Catholics  assert 
their  rights  as  citizens;  that  they  are  Catholic  first,  American 
next.  Por  these  and  other  utterances  of  like  import  he  was 
denounced  in  unmeasured  terms  by  pulpit  and  press. 

To  defend  Catholic  doctrine  and  the  citizen  rights  of 
Catholics,  the  Bishop  established  the  Catholic  Universe^  its 
fust,  number  appearing  Jul)'  4,  [874.  About  this  time  also  he 
organized  in  Cleveland  the  Catholic  Central  Association,  com- 
posed of  representatives  from  all  the  parishes  and  Catholic 
societies  of  the  city. 

Its  influence  tor  good  was  soon  felt.  Since  the  opening  of 
the  Workhouse  in  ( Cleveland,  in  1X70,  the  unfortunate  (  latholic 
inmates  had  been  denied  their  rights  as  ( 'at holies.  No  Catholic 
priest  was  permitted  to  visit  or  instrucl  them.  After  much 
opposition  the  bishop  finally  succeeded  in  getting  the  con- 
sent of  the  Workhouse  authorities  to  allow  (atholic  prisoners 
the  consolation  of  their  religion  thus  far  denied  them.  P. 
the  Catholic  Central  Asso<  iation,  through  some  ol  its  leading 
members,  is  due  in  large  measure  this  concession.    Since  [876 


3  8  BISHOP  GILMOUR. 

Mass  has  been  regularly  celebrated  at  the  Workhouse  on 
alternate  Sundays,  and  on  every  Sunday  morning  the  Catholic 
inmates  of  the  Refuge  department  receive  catechetical  instruc- 
tion from  a  committee  appointed  for  that  purpose  by  the 
Catholic  Central  Association.  For  the  past  eleven  years  the 
relations  between  the  Workhouse  officials,  priest  and  Catholic 
instructors  have  been  most  pleasant  and  satisfactory. 

In  1875  the  Catholic  school  property  of  Cleveland  was 
placed  on  the  tax  duplicate,  in  spite  of  a  decision  of  the 
supreme  court  of  Ohio,  rendered  in  1874,  to  the  effect  that 
such  property  was  not  taxable.  In  1876  suit  of  restraint  was 
entered  by  the  Bishop  and  finally  carried  to  the  supreme 
court  of  Ohio,  the  decision  in  each  of  the  courts  being  in  his 
favor. 

The  Bishop's  house,  on  Bond  street,  was  not  diocesan  prop- 
erty, but  the  personal  property  of  Bishop  Rappe,  who,  on  his 
departure  from  Cleveland,  leased  it  for  a  term  of  years.  The 
lessee  sublet  it  to  the  Very  Rev.  Administrator  Hannin  as  a  resi- 
dence for  himself  and  the  cathedral  clergy.  Bishop  Gilmour 
was  informed  of  this  fact  within  a  few  days  after  he  came  to 
Cleveland,  and  at  the  same  time  was  curtly  notified  that  the 
rent,  considered  high  even  then,  would  at  once  be  raised. 

Unwilling  to  be  a  tenant  any  longer  than  he  could  help, 
the  Bishop  arranged  for  the  erection  of  the  present  episcopal 
residence  on  Superior  street,  immediately  east  of  the  cathe- 
dral, the  cost  to  be  borne  equally  by  the  diocese  and  the 
cathedral  parish.  The  building  was  begun  in  1874  and  com- 
pleted early  in  1876. 

June  24,  1874,  Bishop  Gilmour  fell  seriously  ill  of  nervous 
prostration,  and  for  two  years  was  unable  to  attend  to  the 
affairs  of  the  diocese.  On  the  advice  of  his  physicians  he 
went  to  Europe  for  the  benefit  of  his  shattered  health.  Dur- 
ing his  absence,  the  Very  Rev.  F.  M.  Boff,  who  had  been  made 
Vicar  General  in  May,  1873,  was  appointed  Administrator  of 
the  diocese. 

The  Bishop  returned  from  Europe,  June,  1876,  much  im- 
proved, though  by  no  means  fully  restored  to  health.  Grad- 
ually he  regained  strength  and  by  degrees  resumed  duty. 


DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND.  39 

Between  1872  and  1877  the  diocese  showed  a  marked 
degree  of  activity,  as  seen  in  the  erection  of  a  large  number 
of  churches,  schools  and  religious  institutions.  During  this 
period  churches  were  built  in  the  following  places:  1872- 
Carey,  Green  Spring,  Mineral  Ridge,  New  London,  Oak 
Harbor,  Ottawa,  Plymouth,  Roachton,  Struthers,  Sylvania, 
Vienna,  Wakeman,  VVauseon;  1873— Defiance  (Our  Lady  of 
Per.  Help),  Elmore,  Parma,  Salineville,  Toledo  (Good  Shep- 
herd's, St.  Peter's);  1874 — Berea  (St.  Adalbert's),  Cleveland 
(St.  Procop's),  Genoa,  Weston;  1875 — Brighton,  Bryan,  Desh- 
ler;  1876— Bcttsville,  Leipsic,  North  Ridgeville,  Spencerville, 
Toledo  (St.-  Hedwig's) — in  all  thirty-one  churches  built,  and 
as  many  new  congregations  established. 

In  1872  the  Sisters  of  St.  Joseph,  a  teaching  community, 
were  welcomed  to  the  diocese,  as  also,  in  1874,  the  Sisters  of 
Notre  Dame  who  had  been  exiled  from  Germany  because  of 
the  "  May  Laws."  Both  these  communities  established  them- 
selves in  Cleveland,  the  latter  having  a  large  and  flourishing 
academy  in  connection  with  their  convent. 

In  1873  a  foundling  asylum  was  opened  in  Cleveland  and 
placed  in  charge  of  the  Sisters  of  Charity,  for  the  reception  of 
waifs.  In  connection  with  this  asylum  a  lying-in  hospital 
was  also  founded.  Till  the  opening  of  these  two  institutions 
wealthy  Cleveland  had  n<>  shelter  to  offer  these  helpless  babes 
and  their  unfortunate  mothers — the  former,  offsprings  of  sin, 
the  latter,  its  victims. 

( )n  invitation  of  Bishop  Gilmour  the  Ladies  of  the  Sacred 
1  hart  of  Mary,  connected  with  St.  Mary's  Orphan  Asylum, 
Cleveland,  established  1874)  an  academy  at  Louisville,  Stark 
county,  in  the  building  known  as  St.  Louis'  college,  but 
closed  in  1873.  With  the  academy  was  also  an  institute  for 
deaf  mutes.  Both  academy  and  institute  were  closed  a  lew 
years  later  for  u  ant  of  support. 

A  convent  of  Ursuline  Sisters  was  founded,  in  [874,  at 
Voung  town,  to  take  charge  of  the  parochial  schools  in  that 
place,  ami  eventually  to  establish  an  academy. 

In  [875  the  ('iie\'  Nuns  of  Montreal  built  a  hospital  in 
Toledo,    which    was    Opened    to    the    public    in     [876.      In    the 


4o  BISHOP  GILMOUR. 

latter  year  the  Franciscans  established,  near  their  monastery 
in  Cleveland,  St.  Joseph's  college  for  boys.  Although  this 
institution  was  fairly  supported,  the  Franciscan  Fathers  found 
it  impracticable  to  continue  it  longer  than  June,  1880. 

D.— 1877-1887. 

September  8,  1877,  the  sad  news  of  Bishop  Rappe's  death 
reached  Cleveland  fiotn  St.  Albans,  Vt.  As  eminently  meet, 
as  well  as  justly  due  to  the  memory  of  the  deceased  Bishop, 
arrangements  were  at  once  made  to  have  his  remains  brought 
to  Cleveland  for  burial.  On  their  arrival  an  immense  throng 
met  them,  and  Cleveland's  citizens,  without  creed  or  class 
distinction,  vied  with  each  other  to  pay  their  last  tribute  of 
respect  to  the  remains  of  Bishop  Rappe,  whom  in  life  they 
loved  and  respected,  and  whose  memory,  in  death,  they 
revered  as  that  of  a  public  benefactor,  and  noble  hearted  pre- 
late. Silent  and  sad  as  was  his  departure  from  Cleveland 
seven  years  previous,  grandly  triumphant  in  death  was  his 
return  to  the  city  he  loved  so  well,  of  which  he  spoke  when 
in  the  throes  of  death,  for  which,  during  nearly  a  quarter  of  a 
century,  he  had  given  his  best  efforts.  After  the  impressive 
obsequies  his  remains  were  placed  in  a  crypt  under  the  main 
altar  of  the  cathedral,  there  to  repose  till  the  Last  Call. 

In  1877  Bishop  Gilmour  began  to  systematize  the  routine 
and  business  affairs  of  his  diocese  by  establishing  a  chancery 
office.  He  had  plats  made  of  all  the  church  property  and  the 
respective  deeds  indexed  and  labeled  for  ready  reference. 
Parish,  and  "permit"  records,  records  of  priests  and  religious 
institutions  were  begun,  and  blank  form  for  annual  reports, 
together  with  letter  books  and  leter  files,  were  introduced. 

In  1878  the  collecting  of  historical  data  in  connection  with 
every  congregation  and  religious  institution  in  the  diocese  was 
begun.  So  promptly  and  kindly  did  the  clergy  and  heads  of 
religious  houses  respond  to  the  call  for  historical  data  that  the 
future  historian  will  have  comparatively  an  easy  task  in  writ- 
ing the  history  of  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  He  will  have  but 
to  sift  and  collate  the  abundance  of  historical  matter  in  "the 
diocesan  archives. 


DIOCESE   OF  CLEVELAND.  41 

March  13,  1879,  Bishop  Gilmour  published  a  pastoral  letter, 
which  again,  as  in  1873,  aroused  the  hatred  of  an  anti-Cath- 
olic press  and  pulpit.  For  many  months  after  its  publication, 
the  echo  of  bigotry  resounded  far  and  wide,  simply  because 
he  enunciated  doctrines,  not  new,  but  bold  in  their  utterance. 
His  expressions  regarding  human  liberty,  rights  of  Church 
and  State,  and  Catholic  schools,  gave  blatant  bigotry  food  for 
many   sensational  sermons  ami    "blood-curdling"   editorials. 

May,  1882,  the  sixth  diocesan  synod  was  held  in  St. 
Mary's  seminary,  one  hundred  and  thirty-nine  priests  of  the 
secular  and  regular  clergy  being  in  attendance.  As  a  result 
of  this  synod  we  have  the  present  diocesan  legislation,  which, 
with  the  exception  of  about  half  a  dozen  of  its  two  hundred 
and  sixty-two  statutes,  is  in  perfect  harmony  with  the  laws  of 
the  III  Plenary  Council  of  Baltimore,  held  in  November,  1884. 

In  [uly,  1882,  Bishop  Gilmour  went  to  Europe,  to  visit, 
among  other  countries,  his  native  Scotland,  which  he  had  not 
seen  since  he  left  it  in  1829. 

Besides  traveling  extensively  through  Ireland,  England, 
France  and  Germany,  he  also  paid  his  ad  limina  visit  to 
Rome,  his  first  official  visit  to  the  Holy  See,  although  he  had 
been  there  for  a  few  weeks  in  1875,  as  an  invalid. 

During  his  absence,  till  February,  1883,  Very  Rev.  Vicar 
General  Boff  administered  the  diocese. 

In  [884  the  diocesan  seminary  was  enlarged  by  the  addi- 
tion of  the  present  south  wing,  which  contains  suites  of  rooms 
for  professors  and  separate  rooms  for  students,  neatly  and 
comfortably  furnished.  During  the  following  year,  the  main, 
or  centre  building,  was  entirely  remodeled  by  changing  the 
upper  two  stories  into  a  very  handsome  chapel,  and  locating 
a  lecture  hall  and  the  library  on  the  first  floor.  The  wing 
and  changes  cost  nearly  $20,000. 

March,  1XX7,  Bishop  Gilmour  published  the  "Constitution 
and  By-laws  for  the  Government  of  the  Parochial  Schools  of 
tlu-  1  Hocese  of  ( lleveland,"  of  which  theprincipal  features  are: 
tin-  examination  of  parish  schools  by  district  boards,  and  the 
annual  examination  of  teachers  by  a  diocesan  board  of  exam- 
iners. 


A2  BISHOP  GILMOUR. 

Between  1877  and  1887  the  following  institutions  were 
established  in  the  diocese:  1877 — Convent  of  the  Poor  Clares, 
Cleveland,  and  the  Ursuline  Academy,  at  Villa  Angela,  near 
Nottingham;  1884 — Cleveland — St.  Alexis'  Hospital,  Protect- 
ory for  Girls,  in  charge  of  the  Sisters  of  Notre  Dame; 
Louisville,  St.  Louis'  Orphan  Asylum  for  Boys;  1885 — Toledo, 
Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor.  The  Jesuit  Fathers,  to  whom  had 
been  entrusted,  in  1880,  the  pastorate  of  St.  Mary's  Church, 
Cleveland,  opened  St.  Ignatius'  College,  opposite  their  church, 
corner  Carroll  and  Jersey  streets,  September,  1886.  At  this 
time,  also,  the  Ursulines  opened  an  institution  at  Nottingham 
for  the  education  of  boys  under  twelve  years  of  age.  It  is 
known  as  St.  Joseph's  Seminary. 

Since  1877  churches  were  erected  in  the  following  places: 
1877 — Put-in-Bay;  1878 — Collinwood;  1879 — Cecil,  Chicago 
Junction,  Honey  Creek,  Lorain;  1880 — Cleveland  (St.  Col- 
man's,  Holy  Trinity),  East  Palestine,  Hicksville;  188 1  — 
Bowling  Green,  Cleveland  (St.  Stanislas'),  Sterling;  1882 — 
Attica,  Peninsula,  Toledo  (St.  Anthony's),  Youngstown, 
(Immaculate  Conception)  ;  1883 — Cleveland  (St.  Adalbert's, 
St.  Michael's,  Our  Lady  of  Lourdes'),  Toledo  (Sacred  Heart), 
Tremblayville;  1884 — Lowellville;  1886 — Cuyahoga  Falls, 
Holgate,  Wadsworth;  1887 — Akron  (St.  Mary's),  Cleveland 
(St.  Anthony's,  St.  Francis'),  Hamler,  Miller's  City,  New  Lis- 
bon, North  Creek,  Republic — total,  thirty-five  churches  built 
and  new  congregations  established. 

Few  dioceses  in  the  country,  if  any,  contain  as  many  fine, 
large  and  costly  churches  as  are  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland. 
Many  of  these  were  built  within  the  last  fifteen  years,  replac- 
ing edifices  of  far  less  pretension  as  to  size  and  cost.  Among 
the  more  noteworthy  are  the  following:  Cleveland — St.  John's 
Cathedral,  (furnished  in  1880  with  the  handsomest  spire  in 
the  city,  and  renovated,  1884,  in  most  artistic  manner),  St. 
Patrick's,  St.  Stephen's,  Immaculate  Conception  and  St. 
Edward's — (large  and  beautiful  stone  churches),  St.  Bridget's, 
St.  Joseph's,  St.  Peter's  (renovated  in  1885);  Canton — St. 
John's   and    St.    Peter's;    Delphos,    St.   John's;    Fremont,    St. 


DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND.  43 

Joseph's;  New  Riegel,  St.  Boniface's;  Sandusky — St.  Mary's, 
Sts.  Peter  and  Paul — (both  stone  churches);  Thompson,  St. 
Michael's;  Tiffin,  St.  Joseph's;  Toledo — St.  Francis',  St.  Mary's 
(enlarged  and  renovated  in  1883),  St.  Patrick's,  St.  Peter's. 

Within  the  last  few  years  many  fine  schools  have  been 
built.  Mention  of  a  few  of  the  larger  and  finer  is  here  made: 
Cleveland— St.  Bridget's,  St.  Malachy's,  Holy  Name,  St. 
Joseph's;  Toledo — St.  Patrick's,  St.  Mary's;  Defiance,  Our 
Lady's.  August,  1887,  the  corner  stone  was  laid  for  a  $35,000 
school  house  to  be  built  by  St.  Bernard's,  Akron. 

Wherever  throughout  the  diocese  churches  or  schools  are 
built  to  replace  similar  edifices,  they  are  of  handsome  propor- 
tions, tasteful  design,  and  commensurate  with  the  means  of 
congregations  building  them.  There  appears  to  be  a  healthy 
emulation  to  erect  churches  worthy  their  sacred  use,  and 
schools  at  least  equal  to  those  which  Catholic  parents  help  to 
build,  but  which  in  conscience  they  can  not  allow  their 
children  to  attend. 

The  diocese  of  Cleveland  is  provided  with  generously  sup- 
ported charitable  institutions,  covering  nearly  all  wants  of 
suffering  and  neglected  humanity.  But  there  is  great  need 
of  a  reformatory  for  wayward  and  homeless  boys.  A  farm  of 
nearly  forty  acres  of  excellent  land,  within  a  few  miles  of 
Cleveland,  is  already  secured  as  a  site  for  this  most  necessary 
institution.  Lack  of  means,  however,  has  thus  far  prevented 
the  erection  of  suitable  buildings  to  take  from  the  streets  and 
shelter,  educate  and  train  in  virtue  and  future  usefulness,  boys 
who  are  now  going  to  spiritual  destruction. 

The  seminar}-,  "the  heart  of  the  diocese,"  is  also  greatly 
in  need  of  enlargement  for  the  accommodation  of  a  sufficient 
number  of  young  levites,  who  are  not  only  to  take  the  place 
of  the  laborers  in  the  Lord's  vineyard,  called  to  their  reward, 
but  also  to  meet  the  want-  of  a  rapidly  growing  diocese,  with 

missions  and  congregations  springing  into  existence  on  every 
side     and  no  priest  to  serve  them. 

The    enlargement    of    the    seminar)-    would    also    make'    it 

practicable  to  have  spiritual  retreats  for  the  secular  pri< 


44  BISHOP  GILMOUR. 

and  frequent  meetings  of  the  clergy  of  the  diocese — now 
impossible,  because  there  is  no  building  in  the  diocese  large 
enough  and  under  its  control,  where  such  retreats  or  meetings 
could  be  held. 

In  1817  Father  Fenwick  came  for  the  first  time  to  North- 
ern Ohio  to  break  the  Bread  of  Life  to  the  famishing  children 
of  God's  Church,  living  in  sparse  numbers  within  the  limits  of 
the  present  flourishing  diocese  of  Cleveland.  He  was  the  first 
priest  to  visit  at  regular  intervals  this  part  of  Ohio  since  the 
Jesuits  were  obliged  to  abandon  their  Indian  missions  on  the 
southern  shore  of  lake  Erie,  and  along  the  Vermillion,  San- 
dusky and  Portage  rivers.  Beyond  a  few  Catholic  settlers  in 
Columbiana  and  Stark  counties,  Father  Fenwick  found  no 
trace  of  Catholicity. 

When  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  was  erected  in  1847,  Bishop 
Rappe  found  but  one  church  and  one  priest  in  Cleveland,  and 
forty-two  churches  in  the  entire  diocese,  attended  by  twenty- 
one  priests. 

Were  Father  Fenwick,  the  apostle  of  Catholicity  in  Ohio, 
and  Bishop  Rappe,  the  missionary  bishop  of  the  diocese  of 
Cleveland,  to  return  to  the  scene  of  their  apostolic  labors, 
their  hearts  would  indeed  be  gladdened,  as  they  are  no  doubt 
gladdened  in  heaven,  to  see  the  vigorous  growth  of  the  Tree 
of  Life  they  planted.  They  would  find  more  than  two  hundred 
churches,  many  of  them  cathedral-like  in  size  and  beauty, 
studding  the  territory  formerly  under  their  pastoral  care  and 
jurisdiction.  Institutions  of  religion,  education  and  charity 
would  greet  their  eye;  parochial  schools,  generously  and 
willingly  supported,  would  give  them  assurance  that  the 
children,  the  hope  of  the  future,  have  every  means  placed 
within  their  reach  to  keep  them  in  the  Faith;  they  would  find 
a  zealous  clergy,  devoted  religious  and  a  generous  laity. 

We  have  endeavored  to  outline  the  history  of  Catholicity 
in  Northern  Ohio,  and  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  It  is  for 
the  future  historian  to  give  in  detail  its  foundation,  growth 
and  development,  the  struggles,  trials  and  labors  of  the  pio- 
neers of  religion  in  this  part  of  our  fair  state.       We  close  this 


DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND. 


45 


sketch  with  the  subjoined  table,  which  gives,  in  a  summarized 
form,  and  by  decades  of  years,  the  growth  of  the  Church  in 
Northern  Ohio  and  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland: 


TABLE. 


Year. 

Churches 

Resident 

Priests    '    Female 
(Sec.  and   Rel.Com. 
'   Reg.) 

Char'ble 
Institu- 
tions. 

Educ'nl 
Institu- 
tions. 

Paroch'l 
Schools. 

(  1817 
IN  NORTHERN  )     g    ' 

""I0-           (183? 

• 

2 

1          

f  1847 

indioceseofJ  ^P 

CLEVELAND.    ]   ^ 
I  1887 

42 

78 
150 
190 
225 

21                  3 

54                 7 
90                 9 

iv>                17 
187                18 

1 
4 
5 
7 
8 

3 

5 

10 

16 

7 

70 

no 

126 

BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCH 


— OF   THE  — 


RIGHT   REV.  EDWARD    D.   FENWICK,    O.    P.,   FIRST 
BISHOP  OF  CINCINNATI. 


JANUARY,    1822 — SEPTEMBER,    1 832. 

Edward  D.  Fenwick,  a  descendant  of  the  ancient  English 
family  of  Fenwick  Tower,  was  born  in  St.  Mary's  county, 
Maryland,  in  1768.  After  the  death  of  his  father,  Edward 
was  sent  to  Europe  to  complete  his  studies.  When  leaving 
home  he  was  in  his  sixteenth  year.  He  entered  the  Domini- 
can college  at  Bornheim,  Flanders. 

Impressed  with  the  spirit  and  virtues  of  his  Dominican 
preceptors,  he  became  attached  to  them  and  soon  joined  their 
Order.  From  his  childhood  he  showed  a  tender  and  unaffected 
piety.  This  grew  with  his  years,  and  impressed  itself  on  his 
superiors,  whose  respect  and  confidence  he  easily  won.  Dur- 
ing the  French  revolution  he  was  engaged  in  the  duties  of  a 
professor,  and  as  procurator  of  the  Dominican  convent  at 
Bornheim.  When  the  French  soldiery  overran  and  pillaged 
the  Netherlands,  his  convent  was  seized  and  he,  with  his 
brethren,  imprisoned  as  Englishmen.  Securing  his  release  as 
an  American  citizen,  he  went  to  one  of  the  Dominican  con- 
vents in  England.  There  he  remained  till  1804,  when  in 
compliance  with  his  ardent  wish  he  was  sent  by  his  Provincial 
to  America,  to  labor  there  in  behalf  of  the  spiritual  interests 
of  his  countrymen.  His  native  state  was  his  first  field  of 
priestly  work  in  this  country.  Here  he  toiled  in  his  Master's 
vineyard  about  one  year.  Then  Bishop  Carroll,  of  Baltimore, 
upon  consultation,  and  with  the  advice  and   consent  of  the 


Right  Ri  dE,  Fj  nwick,  O.  I*. 


BISHOP  FEN  WICK.  47 

Father  General  of  the  Dominicans,  sent  him  to  Kentucky  to 
establish  a  colony  of  Friars  Preachers.  In  compliance  with 
instructions  Father  Fenwick,  accompanied  by  three  of  his 
brethren,  Fathers  Wilson,  Tuite  and  Anger,  founded,  in  1805, 
St.  Rose's  Convent,  located  in  Washington  county,  Kentucky, 
on  a  farm  he  purchased  with  his  patrimony.  Here  it  was 
that  the  Dominican  order  had  its  first  home  in  the  United 
States,  and  from  this  place  the  light  of  the  Gospel  was  carried 
far  and  wide.  The  Convent  of  St.  Rose  was  soon  crowned 
with  benedictions.  The  children  of  St.  Dominic,  animated 
with  the  zeal  of  their  pious  founder,  spread  through  the 
whole  extent  of  Kentucky,  and  afforded  to  the  inhabitants  the 
benefits  of  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ.  A  Bull  was  received 
from  Rome  constituting  Father  Fenwick  Provincial  of  the 
Order  in  North  America.  He  could  not,  however,  resolve 
upon  accepting  that  dignity,  fearing  it  might  prevent  the 
conversion  of  souls  to  God.  A  remarkable  circumstance, 
which  lias  always  been  looked  upon  as  the  most  certain  evi- 
dence of  the  exalted  virtue  of  Father  Fenwick  is,  that,  after 
having  obtained  from  Rome  the  office  of  Provincial  for 
Father  Wilson,  with  the  permission  to  annul  the  appointment 
should  he  himself  choose  to  remain  Provincial,  or  to  abdicate 
it,  he  did  not  hesitate  a  moment,  but  asked  bather  Wilson  to 
accept,  as  he  himself  preferred  rather  to  obey  than  to  com- 
mand. 

In  [814  Father  Fenwick,  the  apostle  and  pioneer  priest  of 
this  state,  made  his  first  missionary  visit  to  Ohio,  and  went  as 
far  north  as  Perry  county,  in  the  present  diocese  of  Columbus, 
where  he  found  three  Catholic  families,  consisting  in  all  of 
twenty  members.  These  good  people  were  so  rejoiced  to 
see  him,  that  he  could  never  recall  his  first  pastoral  visit  to 
this  part  of  his  vast  "parish"  without  experiencing  the  great- 
esl  consolation,  because  he  considered  it  the  first  fruit  of  his 

sion  in  (  )hio. 

Accordii  the  most  authentic    information   obtainable 

Father  Fenwick's  first  visit  to  Northern  Ohio  within  the  ter- 
ritory of  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  was  in  1817,  when  he 
came  to  Columbiana  and  Stark  counties.     There   he  found  a 


48  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

number  of  Catholic  families,  some  of  whom  had  moved  to 
Ohio  from  Pennsylvania  and  Maryland;  others  had  emigrated 
from  Ireland  and  Germany.  None  of  them  had  seen  a  priest 
since  they  settled  in  Ohio. 

In  1818  Father  Fen  wick  established,  on  a  farm  given  for 
the  purpose  by  Mr.  P.  Dittoe,  a  fervent  and  generous  Catholic, 
the  present  flourishing  Convent  of  St.  Joseph's,  near  Somer- 
set, Perry  county,  Ohio,  and  was  its  superior  for  nearly  four 
years.  From  St.  Joseph's  he  and  his  few  brethren  of  the  con- 
vent, among  them  his  nephew,  Rev.  N.  D.  Young,  regularly 
attended  the  missions  in  Perry  and  the  neighboring  counties, 
whilst  those  of  Southern  Ohio  received  pastoral  care  from  St. 
Rose's,  Kentucky,  and  occasionally,  also,  from  St.  Joseph's, 
Perry  count}". 

Bisfcop  Flaget,  of  Bardstown,  had  under  his  jurisdiction 
Kentucky,  Indiana,  Michigan  and  Ohio.  He  petitioned  the 
Ploly  See  to  relieve  him  from  the  spiritual  care  of  a  part  of 
his  immense  territory.  In  accordance  with  his  wish  the  dio- 
cese of  Cincinnati  was  erected  in  1821,  and  Father  Fenwick 
consecrated  by  Bishop  Flaget  as  its  first  Bishop  in  the  church 
of  St.  Rose,  Washington  county,  Kentucky,  January  13,  1822. 
Soon  after  his  consecration,  Bishop  Fenwick  took  possession 
of  his  Episcopal  See.  Arriving  at  Cincinnati  he  found  neither 
church  nor  dwelling.  He  rented  a  small  house,  where  he  was 
obliged  to  sleep  in  the  garret;  the  other  part  was  destined 
for  a  chapel  and  a  study.  At  times  he  was  not  able  to  pay  the 
rent,  and  frequently  had  to  seek  his  meals  in  the  city.  The 
cathedral,  if  we  may  call  it  by  that  name,  was  a  barn-like 
plank  building,  about  one  mile  from  the  town,  and  in  rainy 
weather  quite  inaccessible.  The  attempt  to  move  it  to 
the  town  failed;  it  broke  down  on  the  road.  A  lot  was  want- 
ing upon  which  to  erect  the  cathedral  again;  but  where  were 
the  means  to  pay  for  it? 

Without  money,  without  the  hope  of  procuring  it  to  pay 
the  debts  already  contracted,  everywhere  even  the  most  neces- 
sary things  were  wanting.  In  1823  the  Bishop  took  the  reso- 
lution to  set  out  for  Rome,  with  the  intention  of  resigning 


BISHOP  FEN  WICK.  49 

his  heavy  charge.  The  Holy  Father,  Leo  XII,  however, 
encouraged  him  and  presented  him  with  1,200  scudi,  for  the 
expense  of  his  journey  and  those  of  the  clergyman  who 
traveled  with  him.  A  good  God,  in  fact,  loaded  him  with  bless- 
ings, opening  new  sources  to  him,  particularly  in  France,  in 
the  Association  at  Lyons,  for  the  propagation  of  the  faith. 
Belgium  and  Germany,  in  imitation  of  France,  also  contributed 
liberal  sums  to  Bishop  Fenwick  in  support  of  his  poor  diocese. 
(  In  his  return,  in  1824,  the  debts  were  paid,  and  a  brick  cathe- 
dral erected  on  Sycamore  street.  Later  he  established  the 
Athenaeum  College,  near  his  cathedral  church.  He  also 
introduced  into  his  diocese  the  Dominican  Sisters,  and  one  or 
two  other  religious  communities  to  instruct  the  children. 

hull  of  courage,  after  his  successful  visit  to  Furope,  he 
devoted  all  his  energy  and  zeal  to  the  development  and  visi- 
tation of  his  diocese.  Busy  at  or  away  from  his  episcopal 
city,  he  never  had  an  idle  moment.  To  reach  all  the  mis- 
sions of  his  immense  diocese,  coveringOhio  and  Michigan,  he 
had  to  make  long  and  tedious  journeys  by  wagon,  stage,  or  on 
horseback,  often  through  forests,  and  more  often  over  almost 
impassable  roads. 

His  last  visit  to  Northern  Ohio  was  during  the  time  of  the 
cholera,  in  1832.  Before  leaving  Cincinnati,  on  a  visit  to 
Michigan,  he  had  been  ailing.  Rallying  somewhat,  anil  pre- 
pared to  die-  amidst  his  labors  if  Cod  so  willed,  he  proceeded 
on  his  long  journey,  visiting  all  tin-  missions  along  the  route, 
preaching,  catechising,  and  giving  confirmation. 

In  these  missions  difficulties  of  all  kinds  met  him  in  cou- 
nt succession;  some  persons  imploring  the  aid  of  the 
hop,  some  t<>  have  churches  erected,  others  to  have  the 
clergymen  provided  for.  Much  good  was  done  in  this  last 
episcopal  visit.  Upon  the  lakes  the  Bishop  assisted  th< 
dying  of  cholera.  He  himself  fell  so  sick  at  Sault  Sainte 
Marie,    Mich.,  that  it    was  feared  he  would  not  recover.     But 

he    rallied    and    soon    resumed    his   return    journey    to    Detroit, 

and   thence    through    Northern    Ohio    to    Canton,  where    he 
rived,  September  24,  completely  exhausted,  with  renew 


50  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

symptoms  of  the  dreadful  scourge  that  visited  the  entire 
country  and  counted  its  victims  by  the  thousand.  He  was 
attended  with  the  greatest  and  most  tender  care.  Next 
morning  he  said  mass  and  wrote  several  letters.  The  stage 
arriving  at  the  door  of  the  pastoral  residence  of  Father 
Henni,  he  bade  him  good  bye  and  went  on  to  Wooster, 
intending  to  go  thence  to  Cincinnati.  Arriving  at  Wooster 
about  8  P.  M.,  he  was  taken  from  the  stage  with  the  fatal 
impress  of  cholera  on  him.  He  was  brought  to  a  hotel  where 
he  expired  at  noon,  Wednesday,  September  26,  1832.  Before 
sunset  of  the  same  day  a  mound  marked  the  resting  place  of 
his  remains.  It  seemed  he  had  a  foreboding  of  his  death,  for 
wherever  he  passed  last  he  said:  "  this  is  my  last  visit."  In 
one  of  his  letters  he  wrote  that  he  would  visit  two  or  three 
congregations  in  the  neighborhood  of  St.  Joseph's,  Perry 
county,  which  would  be  the  term  of  his  mission,  and  that 
thence  he  would  return  to  Cincinnati,  because  his  strength 
failed  him,  but  added,  as  was  his  custom,  that  he  would  do  so: 
Deo  volcnte,  quia  Jiomo  proponit,  sed  Deus  dis point. 

Father  Henni  was  at  once  informed  of  the  Bishop's  dying 
condition,  but  on  arriving  at  Wooster  a  few  hours  later  he 
found  him  buried. 

In  February,  1833,  Bishop  Fenwick's  remains  were  taken 
to  Cincinnati  and  there  entombed  under  the  old  cathedral. 
They  now  repose  beneath  the  altar  of  the  present  St.  Peter's 
cathedral,  Cincinnati. 

Bishop  Fenwick  was  deservedly  esteemed  for  his  many 
noble  qualities.  He  was  a  man  of  great  simplicity  of  charac- 
ter. Delicate  in  health,  he  nevertheless  devoted  himself 
unsparingly  as  priest  and  bishop  to  the  work  within  his 
sphere.  The  Catholics  of  Ohio  owe  him  a  debt  of  gratitude 
as  the  founder  of  the  Church  in  this  state. 

"  By  his  talents  and  amiable  deportment  he  had  gained 
himself  many  admirers  and  many  personal  friends.  As  a 
herald  of  the  Cross  he  was  always  at  his  post,  faithful,  vigilant 
and  indefatigable.  In  the  ordinary  walks  of  life  he  was  dig- 
nified, affable  and  unostentatious.     *     *     "      He  was  truly  the 


BISHOP  FENWICK.  51 

apostle  of  Ohio."  1.)  "  Though  not  gifted  with  great  natural 
talents,  he  possessed  a  peculiar  tact  for  winning  souls  to 
Christ.  "  *  *  Frank,  open  and  sincere  by  nature,  and  an 
American  himself,  he  possessed  an  instinctive  talent  for  deal- 
ing with  Americans,  whether  Catholic  or  Protestant.  Multi- 
tudes of  the  latter  were  converted  to  Catholicity  through  his 
agency."  2.) 


I)  Catholic  Almanao,  1848;  2,) Spalding's  " Sketches oi  Kentucky,"  i>.  155. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCH 


-OF    THE- 


MOST    REV.    JOHN    B.    PURCELL,    D.    D..    SECOND 

BISHOP  OF  CINCINNATI,  1833-1850.     FIRST 

ARCHBISHOP  OF  CINCINNATI, 

1850-1883. 

John  Baptist  Purcell,  a  native  of  Ireland,  was  born  at 
Mallow,  County  Cork,  February  26,  1800.  After  completing 
a  collegiate  course  in  his  native  country  he  set  out  for  the 
United  States,  landing  at  Baltimore  in  his  eighteenth  year. 
For  a  short  time  he  held  a  position  as  private  tutor,  but 
desirous  of  devoting  himself  to  the  priesthood,  he  entered  Mt. 
St.  Mary's  College,  at  Emmittsburg,  Maryland.  Showing 
talent  much  above  the  ordinary,  he  was  sent  to  the  famous 
Sulpician  Seminary,  Paris,  to  complete  his  theological  studies 
where  also  he  was  ordained  priest  May  23,  1826.  Shortly 
after  his  ordination  he  returned  to  the  United  States,  and 
was  appointed  president  and  one  of  the  professors  of  Mt.  St. 
Mary's  College,  of  which  he  was  an  alumnus.  For  seven 
years  he  held  this  important  position  when  the  Holy  See 
appointed  him  successor  to  the  lamented  Bishop  Fenwick, 
as  second  Bishop  of  Cincinnati.  As  such  he  was  conse- 
crated, in  his  thirty-fourth  year,  at  Baltimore,  by  Arch- 
bishop Whitfield,  October  13,  1833.  After  attending  the 
Second  Provincial  Council  of  Baltimore,  held  a  few  days  after 
his  consecration,  he  set  out  for  Cincinnati,  arriving  there 
November  14,  1833.  In  his  episcopal  city  he  found  but  one 
church,  a  college  in  embryo,  (the  Athenaeum,  on  Sycamore 
street),  and  an  orphan  asylum.  His  diocese  comprised  the 
whole  of  Ohio  and  part  of  Kentucky.  In  Ohio  there  were  at 
this  time  but  sixteen  churches,  attended  by  fourteen  priests, 


Mosi  Reverend  [ohn  B.  Pi  k<  ell,  D.  D. 


BISHOP  P UR CELL.  55 

a  Dominican  convent  in  Perry  county,  and  a  Catholic  popu- 
lation estimated  at  about  six  thousand  souls.  Within  the 
limits  of  the  present  diocese  of  Cleveland — with  which  this 
sketch  will  chiefly  deal,  so  far  as  the  labors  of  Bishop  Purcell 
therein  are  concerned — there  were  but  three  churches,  viz.: 
one  near  Dungannon,  and  one  each  in  Canton  and  Tiffin. 
These  churches  were  attended  by  two  priests,  Revs.  J.  M. 
Henni  and  Edmund  Quinn,  stationed  respectively  at  Canton 
and  Tiffin. 

To  visit  his  scattered  Hock  Bishop  Purcell  had  not  the 
convenience  of  travel  now  enjoyed,  nor  the  hospitality  now 
offered.  On  country  wagons,  by  stage-coach,  and  on  horse- 
back he  covered  great  distances  over  bad  roads,  through 
primeval  forests  and  across  unbridged  streams,  often  partak- 
ing of  primitive  country  hotel  fare,  and  often  taking  shelter  in 
log  huts.  But  in  spite  of  difficulties,  hardships  and  frequent 
privations  he  cheerfully  and  often  made  his  diocesan  visita- 
tions, instructing,  consoling  and  encouraging  the  faithful  com- 
mitted to  his  charge.  His  episcopal  visits  were  always  red- 
letter  days  for  clergy  and  laity.  His  cheerful  disposition  and 
buoyant  spirit  spread  sunshine  and  joy  wherever  he  went,  and 
his  sermons  attracted  by  their  brilliancy  and  eloquence. 

His  first  visit  to  Northern  Ohio  was  made  during  the 
months  of  June  and  July,  1834,  viz.:  Dungannon,  Canton, 
Louisville,  Canal  Fulton,  Chippewa  (Doylestown),  Wooster, 
Tiffin  and  McCutchenville.  During  the  months  of  July, 
August  and  September,  1.S35,  he  visited  Dungannon,  New 
Lisbon,  Cleveland,  Cuyahoga  Falls,  Randolph,  Louisville  and 
Canton,  and  in  [836,  Tiffin  and  Fremont.  June  7,  1X40,  he 
preached  in  Cleveland  at  the  dedication  of  the  Church  of  Our 
Lad)  of  the  Lake,  known  later  and  since  as  St.  Mary's  on  the 
••  Flats,"  Bishop  de  Forbin-Janson,  on  a  visit  from  France,  per- 
forming the  dedicatory  ceremony.  During  the  same  month 
Bishop  Purcell  also  visited  Liverpool,  Chippewa,  Canton  and 
l      i  Liver] 1.     November,  1835,  he  again  came  to  Northern 

Ohio,  visiting  Lindlay,  <  ilandorf,  and  Ft.  Jennings. 

In    [841,  during  the    months  of  June,  July,   August    and 
November,    he    made    an    extensive  tour  through    Northern 


5 4  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

Ohio,  visiting  the  following  places:  Norwalk,  Peru,  Shelby, 
Shelby  Settlement,  Tiffin,  McCutchenville,  Wolfs  Creek 
(New  Riegel),  Sandusky,  Fremont,  LaPrairie,  Perrysburg, 
Toledo,  Canton,  Louisville,  Randolph,  Akron,  Chippewa, 
Wooster,  Canal  Fulton,  Massillon  and  Bethlehem.  In  all 
these  places  he  administered  confirmation,  and  in  many  he 
dedicated  churches  or  laid  corner-stones  for  such.  In  June 
and  July,  1846,  he  visited  Sandusky,  Cleveland,  Peru,  Nor- 
walk, Tiffin,  New  Riegel,  Toledo,  Dungannon  and  Wooster, 
and  in  August,  1847,  Wooster,  Canal  Fulton,  Youngstown 
and  Akron.  At  Akron  he  performed  his  last  episcopal  func- 
tion in  this  part  of  his  jurisdiction,  ordaining  to  the  priesthood, 
August  5,  1847,  the  Rev.  J.  Vincent  Conlan. 

In  1834  he  sent  a  band  of  Redemptorist  Fathers  to  North- 
ern Ohio  to  take  charge  of  missions  in  Huron,  Erie  and  Sen- 
eca counties,  with  residence  at  Peru,  near  Norwalk.  They 
were  succeeded  in  1844  by  the  Sanguinist  Fathers,  who  had 
been  invited  by  him  in  Europe,  the  year  previous,  to  come 
and  labor  in  the  Ohio  mission. 

Finding  his  diocesan  work  far  beyond  his  strength,  he 
petitioned  the  Holy  See  for  a  division  of  his  vast  spiritual 
territory.  In  compliance  with  his  wish  the  division  was  made 
in  1847,  and  all  that  part  of  Ohio,  n6rth  of  forty  degrees  and 
forty-one  minutes,  erected  into  a  separate  diocese,  with  the 
Episcopal  See  at  Cleveland,  and  the  Rt.  Rev.  Amadeus  Rappe 
as  its  first  Bishop.  When  Bishop  Rappe  took  possession  of 
his  See  he  found  forty-two  churches,  fourteen  secular  priests 
and  seven  Sanguinists  under  his  jurisdiction,  an  increase  of 
thirty-nine  churches  and  nineteen  priests  since  1833,  when 
Bishop  Purcell  was  appointed  to  the  See  of  Cincinnati. 

Although  thus  relieved  of  nearly  one-third  of  his  former 
jurisdiction,  Bishop  Purcell's  zeal  and  labor  did  not  diminish; 
on  the  contrary  they  grew  and  spread.  Catholicity  under 
his  direction  made  wonderful  strides  in  Central  and  South- 
ern Ohio.  With  astonishing  rapidity  churches  multiplied, 
congregations  sprung  into  existence,  religious,  charitable  and 
educational  institutions  were  established,  all  demanding  and 
receiving  his  watchful  care  and  paternal  guidance. 


BISHOP  PUR  CELL.  55 

In  [850  Bishop  Purcell  was  made  Archbishop,  with  the 
Bishops  of  Louisville,  Vincennes,  Detroit  and  Cleveland  as 
his  suffragans. 

Under  his  direction  Mt.  St.  Mary's  Seminary  of  the  West 
was  opened  near  Cincinnati  in  1852.  Indefatigably  he 
labored  for  the  spread  of  religion,  and  everywhere  throughout 
his  diocese  evidence  of  his  zeal  and  the  steady  growth  of  the 
Church  could  be  seen. 

In  1853  Archbishop  Purcell  was  relieved  of  the  jurisdiction 
of  Eastern  Kentucky,  in  the  erection  of  the  diocese  of  Cov- 
ington. In  1868  he  asked  for  further  relief  from  constantly 
increasing  work.  The  result  was  the  erection  of  the  diocese 
of  Columbus,  comprising  the  southeastern  part  of  Ohio.  The 
first  Bishop  was  the  Rt.  Rev.  S.  H.  Rosecrans,  who,  as  coad- 
jutor since  1862,  had  lightened  his  labors. 

In  1869  he  made  the  last  of  his  many  visits  to  Rome,  this 
time  to  attend  the  Ecumenical  Council  of  the  Vatican,  which 
opened  in  December  of  that  year.  He  took  a  prominent  part 
in  its  debates,  notabl>r  in  those  connected  with  the  definition 
of  the  infallibility  of  the  Pope.  He  belonged  to  the  inoppor- 
tunists,  but  after  the  council  defined  papal  infallibility  to  be 
of  faith  he  yielded  assent. 

Shortly  after  his  advent  to  Cincinnati,  in  1833,  the  rapid 
growth  of  Catholicity  in  that  city,  as  in  fact  throughout  the 
country,  aroused  bigotry  and  fanatical  alarm.  He  was  chal- 
lenged by  a  Protestant  preacher,  named  Alexander  Campbell, 
to  a  public  drbatc  on  Catholic  doctrine.  This  was  in  1837. 
For  many  days  the  disputants  held  sway  over  large  and  inter- 
red audiences.  The  brilliant  young  Bishop  vanquished  his 
opponent  and  gained  for  himself  the  name  of  a  profound 
theologian,  accurate  historian  and  keen  debater. 

He  was  a  facile  and  pleasing  writer,  as  his  many  learned 
pastorals  will  attest.  He  also  contributed  largely  to  the 
columns  of  the  Catholic  Telegraph,  and  had  the  habit  of 
writing  descriptions  of  his  episcopal  visitations,  which    will 

pro  torehouse  of  valuable  material  lor  the  future  historian 

of  I  latholicity  in  <  >hio 

tholic  Mutoellanea,  in  I  1  ol  ilii-  volume. 


56  BISHOP    PURCELL. 

In  connection  with  Archbishop  Purcell's  biography  it 
becomes  our  duty  to  mention  the  clouded  ending  of  an  other- 
wise brilliant  career,  a  singularly  pure  and  unselfish  life  spent 
for  God  and  His  Church.  We  refer  to  his  financial  disaster, 
of  which  Dr.  John  Gilmary  Shea,  in  his  recent  work,  "  The 
Hierarchy  of  the  Catholic  Church  in  the  United  States," 
pages  107  and  108,  writes  as  follows: 

"  Early  in  1879  financial  affairs  which  had  been  managed 
by  the  Very  Rev.  Edward  Purcell,  ended  in  bankruptcy. 
How  it  all  came  about  must  ever  remain  a  mystery.  The 
venerable  Archbishop,  as  ignorant  as  a  child  of  the  system 
and  its  extent,  at  once  came  forward  and  assumed  the  whole 
responsibility  of  his  brother's  operations.  This  only  compli- 
cated matters  and  raised  a  host  of  legal  questions  as  to  his 
ability,  in  character  of  trustee  for  the  Catholic  church  in  his 
diocese,  to  assume  an  individual  indebtedness  contracted  by 
another;  and  if  he  could,  it  became  necessary  to  decide  what 
property  became  liable  for  it — that  owned  by  the  diocese,  or 
the  property  of  every  Catholic  church  and  institution  in  the 
diocese.  If  the  debt  became  a  just  charge  on  the  whole 
diocese  and  all  its  churches  and  institutions,  it  was  a  debt 
on  every  Catholic,  which  he  was  bound  in  conscience  to 
pay.  This  extreme  view  no  theologian  or  canonist  was 
found  to   take. 

"  The  debts  were  at  first  supposed  not  to  exceed  a  quarter 
of  a  million  dollars,  and  attempts  were  made  to  meet  or  reduce 
it  materially  by  subscriptions;  but  when  it  was  found  that  the 
indebtedness  reached  nearly  four  millions  of  dollars,  the 
attempt  was  abandoned  as  hopeless.  The  Very  Rev.  Edward 
Purcell  died  broken-hearted.  The  Archbishop  made  an 
assignment  of  all  property  in  his  name,  and  long  litigations 
began.  The  courts  ultimately  decided  that  the  congregations 
were  not  liable  except  for  moneys  actually  advanced  to  them." 

In  May,  1880,  Archbishop  Purcell  retired  to  Brown  county, 
Ohio,  near  the  Ursuline  Convent,  where  he  lingered  in  illness,, 
brought  on  in  the  early  part  of  1881  by  a  paralytic  stroke,  till 
his  death,  July  4,  1883. 


Right  Reverend  Amadeus  Rappe,  D.  D. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCH 

OF     THE 

RIGHT  REV.  AMADEUS  RAPPE,  D.  D.,  FIRST 
BISHOP  OF  CLEVELAND. 


OCTOBER,    1847— AUGUST,    1870. 

Louis  Amadeus  Rappe,  first  bishop  of  Cleveland,  was  born 
February  2,  l8oi,  at  Audrchem,  a  village  near  Ardres,  (Dis- 
trict of  St.  Omer,)  Department  of  Pas-de-Calais,  France.  His 
parents.  Eloi  Rappe  and  Marie  Antoinette  Rappe,  nee  Noel, 
belonged  to  the  peasantry  and  were  highly  esteemed  for  their 
probity,  industry  and  Christian  virtues.  They  had  a  family 
often  children,  five  sons  and  five  daughters.  The  subject  of 
this  sketch  was  the  youngest  of  the  sons.  Of  his  four  broth- 
ers, three  were  killed  in  the  Napoleonic  wars,  the  fourth  died 
unmarried.  Destined  by  his  father  to  the  life  of  a  farmer, 
Louis  Amadeus  received  but  an  elementary  education,  such 
as  the  village  school  afforded.  Trained  by  his  parents  to 
habits  of  order  ami  industry,  he  soon  acquired  a  practical 
knowledge  of  husbandry  and  thus  became  very  useful  to  his 
father  in  the  management  of  the  farm.  Me  took  delight  in 
his  avocation;  was  passionately  fond  of  horses,  a  liking  which 
he  retained  all  his  life.  He  was  also  fond  of  youthful  sports 
and  athletic  games.  Sparkling  with  wit  and  cheerfulness,  he 
was  a  genera]  favorite  with  the  young  people  of  his  native 
vil  I  lis  career  seemed  well  marked  out  and  his  family 

friends  did  not  doubt  his  vocation     that  of  .1  farmer. 

I  God  was  there,  with  his  secret  and  admirable  designs! 

(  >ne  evening,  toward  the  end  of  the  year   [819,  when  Amadeus 

was  in  his   i.,th  year,  and  the  family  were  gathered  around 


5S  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

the  domestic  hearth,  the  father  expressed  a  regret  that  not  one 
of  his  sons  had  a  vocation  to  the  priesthood.  He  said  he  had 
always  hoped  to  see  one  of  them  at  the  altar,  this  wish  having 
been  the  dream  of  his  life,  but  that  now  it  was  not  to  be 
realized.  Amadeus,  struck  by  this  remark,  answered:  "Well, 
father,  if  you  wish  it  I  will  become  a  priest."  It  need  hardly 
be  said  that  this  answer  was  not  taken  by  the  family  in  a  seri- 
ous light.  A  general  laughter  ensued,  so  diametrically 
opposed  to  that  sacred  calling  were  his  well-known  tastes. 
On  the  following  morning  he  went  to  his  father,  saying: 
"  Father,  the  remark  which  I  made  to  you  last  evening  is 
serious.  It  occupied  my  thoughts  all  night  ;  I  have  seriously 
reflected  upon  it,  and  wish  to  be  a  priest." 

The  sentiment  thus  made  known  to  the  father,  and  to  the 
mother,  consent  was  readily  granted,  but  not  without  doubt 
and  fear  lest  their  son  might  not  persevere.  They  were  all 
the  more  apprehensive  of  his  firmness  and  perseverance,  as 
one  of  his  older  brothers  began  the  course  of  studies  for  the 
sacred  ministry,  but  failed  to  reach  the  altar. 

Soon  the  necessary  preparations  for  the  departure  of  young 
Amadeus  were  made.  He  went  to  Furnes,  a  small  village 
about  six  miles  from  Boulogne,  to  the  pastoral  residence  of 
one  of  his  relatives,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Noel,  who  was  parish  priest 
of  the  place.  Our  young  aspirant  to  the  sacred  ministry  took 
his  first  latin  lessons  from  this  venerable  priest,  under 
whose  wise  direction  he  seriously  reflected  on  his  voca- 
tion, which  as  he  acknowledged  was  put  to  a  severe  test 
for  the  first  few  months.  October,  1820,  he  entered  the  col- 
lege at  Boulogne,  then  under  the  direction  of  the  celebrated 
Abbe  Haffreingue.  As  he  was  taller  and  older  than  his 
fellow-students  he  was  given  charge  of  one  of  the  study- 
rooms,  an  office  both  delicate  and  at  times  difficult,  but 
filled  by  him  with  kindness  and  prudence.  Even  at  this 
epoch  in  his  life  he  showed  a  keen  sense  of  duty  and  a  firm 
will.  One  of  his  relatives  having  seen  him  during  a  vacation 
full  of  mirth  and  glee,  the  life  of  the  circles  in  which  he 
moved,  noticed  that  at  college  he  was  serious  and  sedate,  and 


BISHOP  RAPPE.  59 

so  told  him.  Amadous  replied,  "When  vacation  is  over  I  shut 
up  all  my  mirth  in  a  box,  to  be  opened  only  the  next  vaca- 
tion." As  he  was  of  a  most  cheerful  disposition,  it  must  have 
cost  him  no  little  effort  to  do  so. 

In    [821  he   received  tonsure  at  the  hands  of  Cardinal  de 
la  Tour  d'  Auvergne   Lauragais,  Bishop  of  Arras.      Having 
completed  the  collegiate  course  of   studies   in    1826,  he   went 
to  the  diocesan    seminary  at  Arras,  receiving   Minor  orders 
on   December  22,  of  the  following  year.     May  21,    1X28,   he- 
was  ordained  sub-deacon,  and  on  December  20,  of  the  same 
year,    deacon.       The    same    prelate    who    gave  him    tonsure 
also  ordained  him  to  the  priesthood  on  March  14,  1829A  The 
parish  of  W'ismes,  a  small  village  near   Fauquembergues,  dis- 
trict  of    St.    Omer,    was    his    first    appointment.       There    he 
remained  till  1 834,  meanwhile   also  attending   a   neighboring 
mission  church.     The  chaplaincy  of  the  Ursuline  Convent  at 
Boulogne-sur-Mer  having   become    vacant    and    the    Sisters 
knowing  the  sterling  worth,  indomitable  zeal,  and  great  pru- 
dence   of     Father    Rappe,    were    desirous    of    having    him 
appointed    their    chaplain    and    spiritual    director.       Mother 
Ursula,    the    superioress   of    the   community,    petitioned   his 
Bishop  to  this   effect,  and   her  request   was  granted.      Father 
R  ippe  remained  chaplain  to  the  Ursulines  of  Boulogne  from 
January,  1834,  till  May,  1840.     During  this  time  he  read  with 
intense  interest  the  "Annals  of  tin-  Propagation  of  the  Faith," 
which   excited   in   him   an   ardent   desire  to  devote  himself   to 
the  American  mission.    In  [839  Bishop  Purcell,  of  Cincinnati, 
passed  through  London  on  his  way  from  America  to   Europe, 
and   whilst   in  that  city  he  was  requested  by  the  parents  of 
three  young  English  ladies  to  take  them  under  his  protection 
the  Ursuline   Convent    at    Boulogne.      There   he   met 
the  zealous  chaplain  <>f  the  community,  and  future  missionary, 
Father  Rappe,  to  whom  he  made  known  the  spiritual  desti- 
tution of  his  large  dio<  Lev.  Amadeus  Rappe  then  offered 

t«>  go   with   him   to   America.     This  he  did,  however,   with 
great  diffidence,  owing  to  his  age,  thirty-nine,  which  he  felt 

1 1,,-   factt  11.  .-Mm ti.,M  iritta    Bishop  Rappe'*  home,  college  and  scminan 

faruifthed  tin  ntleinan  intimately  acquainted  with   the  [ami 

i-i!,     I>i .  I>.  wmIi.  N..w  residing  in  P« 


6o  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

would  be  no  small  hindrance  in  adapting  himself  to  the  life 
of  a  missionary  in  a  strange  land.  Another  great  obstacle 
for  him  was  the  fact  that  he  was  unacquainted  with  the  Eng- 
lish language.  But  he  would  allow  none  of  these  obstacles  to 
hinder  him  from  entering  upon  the  toilsome  and  self-sacri- 
ficing life  of  a  missionary.  After  receiving  the  necessary 
permission  from  his  Ordinary  to  leave  his  diocese,  and  bid- 
ding farewell  to  his  charge,  which  deeply  regretted  to  lose 
him,  who  was  to  them  a  wise  counselor  and  prudent  director, 
he  set  sail  for  America,  September,  1840,  arriving  at  Cincinnati 
the  following  month.  He  was  immediately  sent  by  Bishop 
Pureed  to  Chillicothe  in  order  to  learn  English.  Mr.  Marshall 
Anderson,  a  convert  and  most  estimable  gentleman,  was  his 
teacher.  But  Father  Rappe  found  it  very  difficult  to  master 
even  the  rudiments  of  the  language;  in  a  few  months,  how- 
ever, he  was  able  to  speak  it  sufficiently  well  to  make  him- 
self understood,  though  his  pronunciation  was,  and  always 
remained,  defective.  About  1840  the  present  flourishing  city 
of  Toledo  was  founded.  Catholics  there  were  very  few  in 
number  and  had  neither  church  nor  priest;  Tiffin  was  the 
nearest  place  whence  sick-calls  were  attended.  The  Miami 
and  Erie  canal  was  being  built  about  that  time,  and  there 
came  quite  a  large  influx  of  Catholic  laborers  who  settled 
along  the  line  of  the  canal  and  the  Maumee  river.  There 
was  much  sickness  then,  the  dread  Maumee  fever  under- 
mining the  strongest  constitution,  and  hurrying  many  of  its 
victims  to  an  early  grave.  There  was  also  much  intemper- 
ance among  the  laborers,  who  spent  their  hard  earned  money 
for  drink  and  allowed  their  families  to  want.  To  thisunculti- 
vated  and  uninviting  field  of  labor  Father  Rappe  was  sent 
about  six  months  after  his  arrival  at  Cincinnati.  His  "parish 
limits"  extended  from  Toledo  to  the  Indiana  state  line  and 
as  far  south  as  Allen  county.  From  the  summer  of  1841  till 
the  spring  of  1846  his  labors,  privations  and  difficulties  of  all 
kinds  were  indeed  trying;  he  never  lost  courage,  but  full  of 
missionary  zeal  and  self-sacrifice  he  labored  faithfully  among 
his  people.  It  was  here  that  he  first  saw  the  terrible  effects 
of  intemperance,  which  so  filled  him  with  a  horror  of  this  vice 


BISHOP  RAPPE.  6 1 

that  he  fought  it  then  and  during  the  remainder  of  his  life  by 
word    and    example.       Thousands  bless  his   memory  for  the 
energetic  measures  he  took  in   rescuing  them  from   a  drunk- 
aid's  grave.      For  five  years,  1841-46,  Father  Rappe  was  alone 
in    this  section  of  the  state,   but   his   work   grew   beyond   his 
strength.      Hence    Bishop    Purcell   sent  him  a  co-laborer    in 
the   person  of  Father   Louis  de  Goesbriand,  present  Bishop 
of  Burlington,   Vermont,  who   arrived   at  Toledo  in   January, 
[846.      At    that   time   Toledo   and   the   surrounding    country, 
even  as   tar  west  as  the  state  line,  were  full  of  malaria  of  the 
most  malignant  type.      Bishop  de  Goesbriand,  in   his  remini- 
nces  of  Bishop  Rappe's  missionary  life,  says:   "At  certain 
seasons  it  was  impossible  to  meet  a  healthy-looking  person, 
and  frequently   entire   families   were  sick  and  unable  to  help 
one  another.     Apart  from  the  terrible  malarial  fever  we  were 
occasionally   visited   by   such    epidemics   as    erysipelas,    and 
towards  the  end  of  1 847  we  saw  ship-fever-stricken  emigrants 
landing  on  the    docks,   to   die   among   strangers   a   few   hours 
after  arrival."      After  the  Miami  and  Erie  canal  was  finished 
many  of  the  laborers  left  with  their  families  to  seek  homes  in 
a  more  healthy  climate.     As  the  majority  of  them  were  Cath- 
olic- Father  Rappe's  missions  were  greatly  weakened.      Very 
few  Catholic  families  remained  between  Toledo  and  Defiance. 
Mass    was    said,    however,    each    Sunday   in   Toledo   and    fre- 
quently at  Maumee  City,   and  on  week   days  at    Providence, 
Defiance,  Poplar  Ridge,  and  occasionally  at  Fremont  ami   La 
Prairie.     The  roads  were  often  almost  impassable,  but  Father 
Rappe  and  his  faithful  companion  found  neither  bad  roads  nor 
the  inclemency  of  tin-  weather  a  sufficient  obstacle  to  prevent 
them  from  visiting  each  of  their  scattered  missions  at  the  time 
appointed.     In  his  intercourse  with  his  people,  Father  Rappe 
was  most  affable,  and  he  knew  well    how  to   win  their   respect 
and  confiden  He  was  acquainted  with  every  family,  and 

km-u  every  member  of  each  family.     He  had  a  special  gift  to 
ch  catechism,  and  would  spend  weeks  in  a  settlement  pre- 
p.mu  a   children  tor  the  reception  of  tin-   sacraments. 

I )  ring  this  time  of  preparation  he  would  instruct  the  children 


62  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

for  hours  each  day,  and  always  managed  to  rivet  their  atten- 
tion. He  was  ever  watchful  of  the  spiritual  welfare  of  the 
adult  portion  of  his  flock,  urging  them  to  frequent  confession 
and  a  regular  attendance  at  Mass. 

To  assist  him  in  instructing  the  children  at  Toledo  he 
secured  several  Sisters  of  Notre  Dame  from  Cincinnati.  They 
were  of  the  band  of  Rcligeuscs  that  had  come  with  him  from 
Namur,  Belgium,  in  1840,  and  established  a  branch  of  their 
community  in  Cincinnati.  He  secured  a  house,  near  the  pres- 
ent site  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales'  church,  Toledo,  which  was 
fitted  up  as  a  convent  and  select  school  for  the  little  band 
of  Sisters  that  shared  with  him  the  trials  and  hardships  of 
missionary  life.  They  remained  at  Toledo  from  1846  to  1848, 
when  owing  to  lack  of  support  they  were  recalled  to  Cincin- 
nati. 

Bishop  Purcell  finding  the  labor  of  properly  attending  to 
his  vast  diocese,  comprising  the  state  of  Ohio,  too  much  for 
him,  petitioned  the  Holy  See  for  a  division  of  his  jurisdiction. 
Cleveland  was  considered  as  the  most  fit  city  in  the  northern 
part  of  the  state  for  an  Episcopal  See  and  hence  was  so  des- 
ignated. Father  Rappe,  the  zealous  Missionary  of  the  Maumee, 
was  chosen  as  the  first  bishop  of  this  new  diocese.  Although 
the  Papal  Bulls  to  this  effect  were  issued  April  23,  1847,  they 
did  not  reach  Cincinnati  till  the  following  August.  The  fact 
of  their  arrival  was  published  in  the  Catholic  Telegraph,  Sep- 
tember 2,  1847,  as  follows: 

"The  Bulls  for  the  consecration  of  Rt.  Rev.  Mr.  Rappe 
for  the  new  See  of  Cleveland  have  arrived.  We  very  sincerely 
congratulate  the  clergy  and  congregations  in  the  northern 
part  of  Ohio  on  this  appointment;  if  zeal  for  the  glory  of 
God,  and  utter  disregard  of  self,  a  blameless  life,  and  fervent 
piety  can  qualify  a  man  for  the  episcopacy,  we  know  no  one 
more  likely  to  see  his  hopes  realized  than  the  Bishop-elect 
of  Cleveland.  This  is  his  character  amongst  those  who  know 
him." 

Father  Rappe  was  consecrated  at  Cincinnati,  October  10, 
1847,    by    Bishop    Purcell,    assisted     by    Bishop    Whelan,    of 


BISHOP  RAPPE.  63 

Wheeling,  Virginia.  Two  days  after  his  consecration,  and 
just  before  starting  for  Cleveland,  he  published  his  first  pas- 
toral letter,  which  is  given  here  in  full.  It  portrays  clearly 
the  apostolic  zeal  and  devotedness  to  the  cause  of  God  on 
the  part  of  Bishop  Rappe. 


A.MADKUS, 


BY   THE    GRACE   OF    COD    AND   APPOINTMENT   OF  THE    APOS- 
TOLIC  SEE   BISHOP   OF   CLEVELAND. 


To  the  Clergy  and  Laity  of  the  Diocese  of  Cleveland: 

Graee  Unto  You,  and  Peace  from  God  our  Father,  and 
from  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ: 

VENERABLE  BRETHREN  OF  THE  CLERGY  AND  BELOVED 
BRETHREN  OF  THE  LAITY! 

Overwhelmed  by  the  labors  and  solicitude  which  his 
extensive  diocese  required,  and  full  of  zeal  for  the  welfare  of 
the  flock  which  he  has  governed  with  unsurpassed  wisdom 
and  success,  the  Rt.  Rev.  John  Baptist,  Bishop  of  Cincinnati, 
humbly  supplicated  the  late  Provincial  Council  to  establish 
.mother  episcopal  see  in  the  northern  part  of  the  state  of 
<  >hi<>.  This  request  was  granted,  and  the  city  of  Cleveland 
has  been  chosen  to  be  the  see  of  the  new  diocese.  The 
Roman  Court  has  approved  and  sanctioned  these  proceedings, 
and  His  Holiness,  Pius  IX,  at  the  request  of  the  Council,  has 
elevated  me  to  the  Episcopacy.  Had  I  consulted  my  fear  I 
would    have    immediately    declined    accepting   .1    station    so 

ompassed  with  difficulties,  but  yielding  to  the  voice  of 
authority,  and  thereby  made  strong  by  the  favor  of  the 
Almighty,  I  consented  to  fori  go  my  weakness  and  inability, 
to  rely  solely  on  Him  who  can  strengthen  the  weak,  and  pre- 
pare them  for  the  labor.     "  <  ro,  and  teach  all  nations:  behold 


64  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

I  am  with  you  all  days  until  the  consummation  of  the  world." 
That  divine  mission  given  by  Jesus  Christ  to  His  Apostles, 
has  been  confided  to  me  by  their  successors  and  the  Apostolic 
See.  Invested  with  this  sacred  power,  and  comforted  by  the 
grace  of  the  episcopal  office,  I  feel  encouraged  to  work  for  the 
glory  of  our  common  Master  and  the  welfare  of  our  immortal 
souls. 

It  is  indeed  consoling,  venerable  brethren  of  the  clergy, 
that  in  discharging  the  functions  of  a  ministry  so  sublime  and 
perilous,  I  will  be  seconded  by  your  devotion,  your  talents, 
your  virtues,  and  your  experience.  For  several  years  I  have 
fought  in  your  ranks,  shared  your  toils,  admired  your  zeal,  and 
witnessed  with  joy  the  success  that  crowned  your  efforts.  It 
was  then  one  of  my  greatest  pleasures,  whilst  associated  with 
you  in  the  ministry,  to  call  you  friends,  and  now,  placed  at 
your' head,  as  the  first  sentinel  of  the  camp  of  Israel,  I  desire 
more  than  ever  to  be  regarded  as  your  friend  and  father, 
rather  than  your  superior.  My  happiness  will  be  henceforth 
to  have  part  in  your  labors,  to  direct  your  efforts,  to  alleviate 
your  cares,  and  to  console  your  sorrows.  Our  number  is 
small,  but  let  us  pray  to  the  Lord  to  send  more  laborers  into 
His  vineyard,  and  whilst  waiting  with  patience  His  answer  to 
our  supplications,  let  our  union,  our  piety,  our  prudence  and 
zeal  make  amends  for  the  deficiency.  In  the  daily  morning 
meditations  we  will  find  a  divine  fire  which  illumines  and 
vivifies;  the  reading  of  the  Holy  Scriptures  will  furnish  us 
with  arms  against  our  enemies,  and  be  our  comfort  in  tribula- 
tion. The  works  of  the  Fathers  and  the  acts  of  the  Councils, 
but  particularly  of  the  Councils  of  Baltimore,  which  are  so 
appropriate  to  the  circumstances  and  wants  of  our  mission, 
will  be  a  pure  source  from  which  we  can  draw  sound  doctrine 
and  wisdom  to  direct  us  in  the  various  exigencies  of  our 
ministry. 

Your  spiritual  necessities,  beloved  brethren  of  the  laity, 
are  not  unknown  to  us;  we  wish  to  be  intimately  acquainted 
with  your  desires  for  the  advancement  of  religion,  and 
although  we  may  be  unable  to  provide  resident  pastors  for 


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S 


ever}-  congregation,  we  will  endeavor  to  console  you  in  their 
absence  by  frequent  visits,  and  by  sending  you,  from  time  to 
time,  faithful  missionaries  who  will  speak  your  language,  and 
animate  your  piety. 

We  sigh  for  the  day  when  we  will  be  able  to  appear 
amongst  you,  to  bless  you,  to  instruct  you,  and  to  be  edified 
by  your  devotion.  Many  a  time  have  we  been  moved  by  the 
constancy  of  your  faith  and  the  beauty  of  your  example. 
What  a  consolation  for  a  pastor  to  be  surrounded  by  a  faithful 
flock,  anxious  to- diffuse  on  all  sides  the  sweetness  of  the  doc- 
trines of  Jesus  Christ.  Those  truly  Catholic  souls  are  His 
glorv,  and  they  give  a  powerful  energy  to  His  words.  They 
are  so  many  apostles  before  whose  integrity  and  piety  the 
demon  of  prejudice  is  passing  away.  The  times  are  propi- 
tious! The  eminent  virtues  of  our  prelates  and  clergy,  their 
eloquence  in  the  pulpit,  their  polemical  works,  so  marked  by 
ability  and  clearness,  the  numerous  conversions,  both  at  home 
and  abroad,  conversions  in  which  the  finger  of  God  is  so 
visible,  since  they  can  not  with  reason  be  attributed  to  any 
worldly  motive  -all  these  circumstances  directed  by  Divine 
Providence  for  the  triumph  of  truth  seem  to  have  mitigated 
the  violence  of  our  dissenting  brethren,  and  prepared  the 
minds    of    the    more    learned   portion    of    the    community    to 

amine  and  appreciate  the  divine  excellence  of  our  holy 
religion.  It  is  for  you,  beloved  brethren  of  the  laity,  to 
encourage    this    disposition    to    a    sounder    system.       If  the 

>quence  of  an  upright  life  does  not  convert  our  opponents, 
at  least  it  silences  the  hostility  of  the  unwise  and  imprudent. 
Il  is  thus  that  we  can  most  efficaciously  contribute  to  the  pro- 
pagation of  that  faith  which  has  conquered    the  world.      Con- 

le.  beloved  brethren  of  the  laity,  and  help  your  pastors  by 
the  sanctity  of  your  lives.  Have  but  one  mind,  no  matter 
what  may  be  your  nation,  your  language,  your  position  in 
v.  Vou  are  all  the  children  ol  tin- same  Father,  the 
members  "t  [esus  Christ,  destined  for  the  same  inheritan 
In  order  that  you  might  preserve  this  sweet  union  ol  mind 
and   heart,  1  often  to  the  Sacred  Table,  to  feed  on  the 

of  Life,  t..  be  strengthened  by  the  God  of  charity      He 


66  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

will  remind  you  that  He  loved  you  even  to  the  shedding  of 
His  Blood,  and  therefore  has  the  right  to  command  that  you 
love  one  another.  Unite  together  every  night  in  family  wor- 
ship, and  the  Lord  will  be  amongst  you.  Observe  punctually 
the  Lord's  day,  and  the  laws  of  the  Church  and  of  the  State, 
and  educate  your  children  in  the  fear  and  love  of  God.  Do 
all  in  your  power  to  provide  for  their  instruction  orthodox 
and  pious  teachers.  We  beseech  you  also,  beloved  brethren, 
by  the  mercy  of  Jesus  Christ,  to  live  soberly.  Drunkenness, 
and  the  debaucheries  which  attend  it,  degrade  man,  disgrace 
the  faith,  and  precipitate  many  into  endless  misfortunes. 

As  for  us,  venerable  fellow-laborers,  we  will  all  endeavor 
to  be  the  models  of  the  faithful  in  conversation,  in  charity,  in 
faith,  in  chastity.  Our  mission  is  a  glorious  one,  and  our 
reward  will  be  equally  glorious  if  we  live  according  to  our 
sublime  vocation. 

tAMADEUS, 
Bishop  of  Cleveland. 

Given  at  Cincinnati,  October  12,  1847. 


Within  a  week  after  his  consecration  Bishop  Rappe  took 
possession  of  his  diocese,  comprising  all  that  portion  of  Ohio 
lying  north  of  the  southern  limits  of  Columbiana,  Stark,  Wayne, 
Ashland,  Richland,  Crawford,  Wyandot,  Hancock,  Allen  and 
Van  Wert  counties,  and  containing  forty-two  churches,  attend- 
ed by  twenty-one  priests.  There  was  then  but  one  church  in 
Cleveland,  St. Mary's  on  the  "Flats,"  which  served  as  his  cathed- 
ral; and  but  one  priest,  the  Rev. Maurice  Howard.  January,  1848, 
Father  Howard  was  sent  to  Tiffin,  and  Father  de  Goesbriand 
was  appointed  his  successor  and  Vicar-General.  St.  Mary's 
congregation  was  composed  of  English  and  German  speaking 
Catholics,  who  had  far  outgrown  their  church  when  Bishop 
Rappe  came  to  Cleveland.  He  succeeded  in  getting  a 
German  priest,  by  whom  separate  services  were  given  to 
the  German  portion  of  the  congregation,  thus  tiding  over 
the  necessity  of  building  another  church  at  that  time. 
For   several   months  the  Bishop  resided   in    a   rented   house. 


BISHOP  RAPPE.  67 

south  of  the  Public  Square;  but  in  1848  he  bought  a  house  on 
Bond  street,  which  he  made  his  episcopal  residence.  To 
supply  the  wants  of  the  growing  Catholic  population,  a  frame 
building,  30x60,  was  erected  on  Superior  street,  a  short  dis- 
tance east  of  Erie,  near  the  site  of  the  present  cathedral,  and 
next  to  the  lots  which  Rev.  Peter  McLaughlin  had  bought  in 
1845  for  church  purposes.  This  frame  building  served  several 
years  as  a  "chapel  of  ease"  for  St.  Mary's  church,  and  as  a 
parochial  school,  the  first  in  the  city.  Folding  doors  cut  off 
the  sanctuary  during  school  hours.  This  little  church  was 
commenced  and  finished  in  December,  1848.  It  was  used  for 
the  first  time  on  Christmas  of  same  year,  and  hence  was 
called  the  Church  of  the  Nativity.  Meanwhile  Bishop  Rappe 
had  plans  drawn  and  specifications  made  for  a  cathedral,  to 
be  erected  at  the  northeast  corner  of  Superior  and  Erie 
streets.  Mr.  Keily,  of  Brooklyn,  X.  Y.,  was  the  architect. 
The  corner-stone  was  laid  on  Sunday,  October  29,  1848, 
Bishop  Timon  of  Buffalo  preaching  on  the  occasion.  The 
cathedral  was  consecrated  November  7,  1852. 

In  1849  tne  Bishop  went  to  Europe  for  the  purpose  of 
securing  priests  for  his  diocese,  and  members  of  religious 
communities  for  schools  and  charitable  institutions.  He 
returned  in  August,  1850,  bringing  four  priests,  *),  five  semi- 
narists, f),  two  Sisters  of  Charity,  and  six  Ursuline  nuns. 
Two  years  previous  he  opened  a  seminary  back  of  the 
episcopal  residence  on  Bond  street,  with  Father  de  Goesbriand 
as  its  first  superior.  Thither  the  seminarists,  just  arrived 
from  France,  were  sent,  some  to  complete  their  studies  and 
one  or  two  to  be  ordained  shortly. 

During  the  Bishop's  absence,  Judge  Cowles*  mansion  on 
Euclid  avenue  was  bought  for  the  Ursuline  Sisters.  It  is  the 
prc-x-nt  Mother-House  of  the  Cleveland  Ursulines.  The 
Sifters  took  possession  of  their  new   home  on    their  arrival    in 

veland,  and   almost    immediately  opened  a   select   school 

and  an  academy.        In    [85]    the   Ladies  <.f  the  Sacred   Heart   of 

Mary  established  St.   Mary's  Orphan   Asylum  for  girls.     The 

\[.  Coquerelle,  C.  Evrard,  \.  Qelamewaki,  and  J.  B,  Maresohal. 
1..  r.  l>-  Ircy,  /..  Dru  >n,  I..  Pillere,  I..  Molon,  an  I  V  I' hel. 


68  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

first  building  used  for  the  purpose  was  located  on  St.  Clair 
street,  near  Bond,  Cleveland.  Toward  the  end  of  1853  the 
asylum  was  transferred  to  Harmon  street,  its  present  location. 
During  the  latter  year  Bishop  Rappe  opened  St.  Vin- 
cent's Orphan  Asylum  for  boys  on  Monroe  street,  Cleve- 
land, and  placed  it  in  charge  of  the  Sisters  of  Charity 
of  St.  Augustine,  a  community  he  had  established.  Thus 
the  most  pressing  wants  of  the  diocese  were  supplied. 
The  Bishop  now  directed  his  attention  to  details  of  diocesan 
work,  visiting  ever}'  church  and  station  at  frequent  intervals, 
giving  missions,  administering  confirmation  and  preaching. 
Though  constantly  at  work,  either  at  home  in  his  cathedral, 
or  out  in  the  diocese,  he  never  showed  signs  of  fatigue. 
Never  satisfied  with  what  he  had  already  accomplished,  he 
was  always  anxious  to  do  still  more  for  the  glory  of  God  and 
the  good  of  religion.  He  was  specially  solicitous  for  Catholic 
schools,  and  where  it  was  within  the  range  of  possibility 
priests  were  obliged  to  establish  such  in  their  respective 
parishes.  He  also  established  institutions  in  which  charity  in 
various  forms  might  be  dispensed,  and  to  this  end  introduced 
the  following  female  religious  communities  into  the  diocese, 
besides  those  already  mentioned,  viz.:  the  Grey  Nuns  {Sceur- 
Grises)  of  Montreal,  1855;  the  Sisters  of  the  Good  Shepherd. 
1869,  and  the  Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor,  1870.  He  also  wel- 
comed the  Franciscans  to  the  diocese  in  1867,  giving  them 
charge  of  St.  Joseph's  congregation,  Cleveland,  and  two  years 
later  the  Jesuits,  to  whom  he  entrusted  St.  Mary's  congrega- 
tion, Toledo. 

Previous  to  1865  Cleveland  had  no  public  hospital.  As 
early  as  1850  two  French  Sisters  of  Charity  attempted  to 
establish  one  on  the  West  Side — then  known  as  Ohio  City. 
Their  noble  purpose  failed  of  success  for  want  of  means,  and 
so  they  returned  to  their  native  France  the  following  year. 

In  1863,  during  the  civil  war,  then  at  its  height  of  bloody 
carnage,  many  sick  and  wounded  soldiers  were  sent  to  Cleve- 
land for  medical  treatment,  but  no  provision  had  been  made 
to    receive  and   care   for   them.      It    was  then   that  Cleveland 


BISHOP  RAPPE.  69 

realized  the  necessity  of  a  hospital,  which  Bishop  Rappe 
would  long  before  have  built  had  he  had  the  means.  He 
now  saw  a  near  realization  of  his  long-cherished  plan.  He 
offered  to  build  a  hospital  and  provide  efficient  nurses,  on 
condition  the  public  would  come  to  his  assistance.  This  offer 
was  gladly  accepted  and  two  years  later  (1865)  Charity  Hos- 
pital, costing  about  $75,000,  was  opened  to  the  public,  and 
placed  in  charge  of  the  Sisters  of  Charity.  In  every  good 
work  Bishop  Rappe  was  in  the  front  ranks,  never  shirking  his 
part,  never  refusing  his  aid  or  countenance.  Though  perhaps 
meeting  with  disappointment,  or  receiving  insult  for  his 
pains,  he  never  halted,  but  courageously  went  on  in  his  work. 
He  knew  no  such  word  as  fail. 

Time,  incessant  labor,  and  mental  worriment  caused  by 
opposition,  began  to  tell  on  him.  His  sight  also  began  to 
fail  him.  He  lost  the  use  of  his  right  eye  and  was  in  danger 
of  losing  his  sight  entirely.  In  1869  he  attended  the  Vatican 
Council.  Opposition  and  strife  still  growing,  he  felt  it  to  be 
to  the  best  interests  of  religion  to  resign  the  burden  of  the 
episcopacy  he  had  so  long  and  patiently  borne.  His  resigna- 
tion as  Bishop  of  Cleveland,  tendered  August  22,  1 870,  was 
accepted  by  the  Holy  See. 

Winn  Bishop  Rappe  came  to  Cleveland  in  1S47  he  found 
a  sparsely  settled  diocese  awaiting  organization  at  his  hands. 
He  left  it  nourishing,  well  provided  with  priests,  churches, 
schools  and  religious  institutions.  The  episcopal  city  in  1847 
had  but  one  small  church;  in  1870  there  were  eleven,  with  as 
many,  and  mostly  large,  congregations.  His  work  as  a  mis- 
mary  priest  and  as  a  missionary  bishop,  his  burning  zeal 
and  noble  self-sacrifice  enshrine  him  in  the  history  of  the 
Church  in  the  United  Stat.  an  apostle  of  Catholicity  in 

Ohio. 

In  this  connection,  and  in  justice  to  the  memory  of  Bishop 
Rappe,  we  place  the  following  on  record: 

Cardinal  Simeoni,  Prefect  of  the  Propaganda,  in  a  letter 
ni  to  the  Kt.  Rev.  Bishop  Gilmour,  May  8,  1885,  referring 
to  Bishop  Rappe,  says: 


7o  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

"  *  ">:"  in  ilia  miserrima  conspiratione  contra  episcopum 
Clevelandensem,  praedecessorem  Amplitudinis  Tuae,  in  qua 
tile  sane  tits  ct  apostolicus  senex  falsa     *     *     accusabatur" 

Five  years  after  Bishop  Rappe  resigned,  the  Holy  See 
offered  him  another  diocese,  as  appears  from  the  subjoined 
letter  addressed  to  Bishop  Gilmour  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop 
de  Goesbriand: 

"Burlington,  Vt.,  21st  December,  1884. 
Rt.  Rev.  R.  Gilmour,  Bishop  of  Cleveland; 

Rt.  Rev.,  Dear  Sir: 

"After  consulting  my  records  I  find  that  Mgr.  Roncetti, 
Ablegate  of  the  Holy  Father,  arrived  at  Burlington,  from 
Portland,  in  company  of  Father  Ubaldo  Ubaldi,  Very  Rev. 
Father  Ouinn  and  Rev.  Father  O'Farrell,  of  New  York,  on 
Saturday  evening,  July  24th,  1875.  The  object  of  his  visit 
was  to  see  Rt.  Rev.  A.  Rappe,  whom  he  thought  to  be  living 
in  Burlington,  but  who  was  living  at  St.  Albans  with  Father 
Druon. 

"  The  Ablegate  expressed  himself  disappointed  in  not 
meeting  him.  I  remember  distinctly  that  after  inquiring 
concerning  Bishop  Rappe,  he  opened  in  my  presence,  and 
read  with  much  attention,  a  letter  of  Cardinal  Franchi  to 
himself,  and  said  to  me  that  he  had  been  commanded  to  see 
Rt.  Rev.  A.  Rappe,  and  authorized  to  offer  him  another  dio- 
cese. The  Ablegate  left  Burlington  the  next  day  and  did  not 
see  Bishop  Rappe.  Whether  or  not  he  wrote  to  him  I  cannot 
tell,  but  it  was  certainly  intended  to  speak  to  him  of  another 
see,  for  I  remarked  to  Mgr.  Roncetti,  that  the  charge  of  a 
diocese  would  be  too  much  for  Bishop  Rappe,  who  at  that 
date  must  have  been  seventy-four  years  of  age. 

What  I  have  here  written  I  am  ready  to  swear  to. 

tLOUIS, 
Bishop  of  Burlington,  Vt." 

Dr.  John  Gilmary  Shea  in  his  recent  work,  The  Catholic 
Hierarchy  in  the  United  States,  (page  206),  referring  to  the 
resignation  of  Bishop  Rappe,  says: 


BISHOP  RAPPE.  71 

"  Bishop  Rappe  had  built  up  the  diocese  and  might  have 
been  expected  in  his  declining  years  to  enjoy  a  happy  old  age 
amid  the  clergy  and  people  whom  he  had  guided  as  a  faithful 

tor  for  twenty  [twenty-three]  years,  but  this  was  not  to 
be.  An  ungrateful  opposition  sprung  up,  calumny  assailed 
even  the  venerable  bishop,  who  with  a  broken  heart  resigned 
his  see  on  the  22d  of  August,  1870,  and  retired  to  the  diocese 
of  his  good  friend  Bishop  de  Goesbriand,  of  Burlington." 

In  his  Lives  of  Deceased  Bishops,  Dr.  Richard  H.  Clark  says 
of  Bishop  Rappe:     "While  attending  the  [Vatican]  council 
his  reputation  was  assailed   unjustly  at  Rome,  by  calumnies 
forwarded  from  the  very  diocese  he  had  served  so  well.     This 
movement   was  limited  to  a  few.     *     *     *     Rome,  misled  by 
calumnies,  which  it  afterwards  discovered  and  pronounced  to 
be  the  fruits  of  a  conspiracy,  counseled  his  retirement.     But 
he  was  never  removed  from  his  office  as  Bishop  of  Cleveland. 
On    his    return    to    Cleveland    from    Rome,    he    resigned    his 
bishopric  August  22,  1870.  •  He  had  been  Bishop  of  Cleveland, 
not  only  in  name,  but  in  deed,  and  left  that  title  unsullied  before 
God."*.)        *        ::"       "  Since  his  death  I  have  seen  the  original 
letter,  one  from  the  Holy  See,  in  which  the  means  resorted  to 
tn  compel  his  retirement  from  his  see,  are  spoken  of  as  a  'mis- 
erable conspiracy,1  the  accusations  against  him  are  character- 
ized as  'false,'  (falsO  accusabatur),  and  in  which  Bishop  Rappe 
is  himself  spoken  of  as  'that  holy  and  apostolic  old  man,'  (ille 
sanctus  et  apostolicus  senex).    t 

At    the    Pontifical    Requiem  high  mass  for  the    deceased 

prelates  <>f  the  Cincinnati   province,  celebrated  in   St.  Peter's 

thedral,  Cincinnati,   March   7,    [882,   at  the  time  the  IVth 

Provincial     Council    of    Cincinnati     was    in     session,    Bishop 

\)v.  .of  Ft.  Wayne,  preached  the  sermon  on  the  occasion. 

f<  rring  to  Bishop  Rappe,  he  spoke  as  follows: 

*       ••        \W    remember   to-day    the    first    Bishop    of 

land,   Amadeus   Rappe.      Having  known   him    from  the 

days   of  my   childhood,  it  is  to-day   a  pleasant  duty  to   do 

justice  to  his  memory.     He  was    elevated   to   the    episcopal 

•.    \..  i.    Vol. 3,  it 


72  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

dignity,  not  so  much  on  account  of  brilliant  talent,  as  on 
account  of  piety  and  apostolic  zeal.  It  was  an  edifying  sight 
to  see  the  hard  working  apostolic  Bishop  visit  every  church 
of  his  wonderfully  growing  diocese  every  year,  preaching, 
giving  confirmation,  hearing  confessions;  nothing  was  too 
hard  for  him;  nothing  could  tire  him.  When  I  conducted 
missions  and  forty  hours'  devotions,  I  sometimes  would  feel 
a  delicacy  to  urge  the  priests  to  go  in  the  confessionals;  but 
if  the  good  Bishop  was  present  I  never  hesitated  to  ask  him 
to  hear  confessions,  if  I  knew  there  was  a  crowd.  Witness 
the  wonderful  growth  of  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  from  the 
year  1847  to  the  time  of  his  resignation.  I  do  not  deny  that 
the  saintly,  apostolic  Bishop,  relying  upon  the  advice  and 
judgment  of  men  whom  he  considered  more  learned  than 
himself,  did  commit  some  error  in  the  administration;  but 
the  austere,  hard-working,  apostolic  man  was  innocent  of  the 
cruel  accusations  that  were  concocted  against  him,  and  sad- 
dened the  last  days  of  his  life.  I  know  how  these  accusations 
were  concocted.  I  have  spoken  with  the  principal  witness. 
I  know  he  was  innocent.  Beautiful  were  the  words  the  good 
Bishop  used,  when  in  1870  he  tendered  his  resignation  to  the 
Holy  See:  That  for  the  good  of  his  diocese  he  not  only 
resigned  his  dignity,  but  also  his  good  name;  that  for  the 
sake  of  peace  and  harmony  he  desired  no  vindication."' 

Immediately  after  his  resignation  he  retired  to  St.  Albans, 
Vermont,  making  his  home  with  V.  Rev.  Father  Druon,  V.  G., 
until  his  saintly  death,  at  St.  Albans,  September  8,  1877. 
He  was  incessantly  engaged  in  his  former  and  favorite  work 
of  giving  missions  and  catechising  the  young  throughout  the 
diocese  of  Burlington.  He  conducted  a  very  successful  mis- 
sion in  the  great  parish  church  of  Notre  Dame,  Montreal, 
preaching  the  entire  course  of  sermons  himself.  Immense 
audiences  heard  his  eloquent  and  impressive  sermons,  and 
thousands  took  from  him  on  that  occasion  the  pledge  of  total 
abstinence.  He  was  the  Father  Mathew  of  Montreal.  The 
last  mission  he  gave  was  at  Grand  Isle,  near  St.  Albans. 
Although  seriously  ailing  of  what  proved  to  be  his  last  illness, 

-Catholic  Telegraph,  March  9, 1882. 


BISHOP  RAPPE.  73 

he  closed  the  mission  exercises,  after  one  week  of  intense 
pain  and  suffering,  September '7,  1877,  the  day  before  he  died. 
On  the  same  day  he  left  for  Milton,  12  miles  from  St.  Albans. 

The  following  particulars  of  Bishop  Rappe's  fatal  illness 
and  death  were  given  to  the  writer  by  the  Very  Rev.  Father 
Druon,  in  a  letter  dated  September  20,  1888:  "  He  arrived  at 
Milton  in  the  morning  (Friday,  Sept.  7th),  when  Father  Car- 
dinal telegraphed  to  me.  I  reached  Milton  at  12:30  P.  M. 
and  found  Bishop  Rappe  a  little  delirious,  though  he  had  taken 
a  good  fish  dinner.  I  brought  him  to  St.  Albans  without  any 
trouble,  in  the  afternoon,  when  I  telegraphed  to  Bishop  de 
Goesbriand,  who  arrived  in  the  evening.  He  heard  his  con- 
fession, for  at  that  time  he  had  entirely  recovered  his  con- 
sciousness. Dr.  Fasset,  who  came  to  see  him  in  the  afternoon, 
found  him  pretty  well,  so  that  he  had  then  hope  of  his 
recovery.  After  the  Bishop's  arrival  at  St.  Albans,  when  he 
was  still  a  little  delirious,  he  wished  to  start  for  his  missions, 
and  it  was  then  that  he  said:  '  /  have  a  grand  mission  to  per- 
form; I  want  to  go  to  Cleveland  by  the  way  of  IUiffalo.'  On 
the  following  day  he  fell  into  a  comatose  state  from  which  he 
tiever  recovered;  he  died  peacefully  that  night  at  11:30 
o'clock."  The  last  words  he  breathed  were:  "  I  have  prayed 
for  my  friends ;  I  /tare  prayed  for  my  enemies ;  now  may  God 
bless  them  all  /"  Words  of  apostolic  benediction,  of  forgiving 
and  loving  charity;  an  echo  of  the  Last  Words  on  Calvary! 

His  remains  were  brought  to  Cleveland — to  the  city  he 
loved  so  well.  On  arrival  Thursday  evening,  September  13th, 
they  were  met  by  an  immense  concourse  of  people,  Catholic 
and  Protestant,  all  vieing  to  do  honor  to  the  dead  Bishop 
whom  in  life  they  loved  and  venerated.  By  torchlight  the 
immense  funeral  cortege  passed  from  the  Union  Depoi  to  the 
cathedral,  where,  on  .1  magnificent  catafalque,  Bishop  Rappe's 
mortal  remains  were  placed  in  state  for  the  night.  Next  day 
.1  Pontifical  requiem  Mass  was  celebrated  by  Bishop  Dwenger 
of  Ft.  Wayne.     Bishop  Ryan,  of  Buffalo,  preached  the   pane- 

ic,  pronouncing  a  beautiful  tribute  to  the  memory  of  the 
sainted    dead.     The    remains   of   Bishop    Rappe    were   then 


74  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

enclosed  in  a  vault  beneath  the  cathedral  he  had  built,  and 
beneath  the  altar  at  which  for  eighteen  years  he  had  offered 
up  the  divine  sacrifice. 

Tuesday,     October     16,     the    Rt.     Rev.     Bishop    Gilmour 
preached   in   the   cathedral   at  the    Month's   Mind  of  Bishop 
Rappe.       From  his  sermon  on  that  occasion  we  quote  the  fol- 
lowing passage:     "Bishop   Rappe  came   as   a  missionary,  he 
abided  as  a  missionary,  he  persevered  as  a  missionary.     The 
same  brave  old  missionary  bishop!       Seeking  his  people  far 
and  wide;  preaching  incessantly  to  them  from  the  pulpit,  day 
after  day  and  year  after  year;  patiently  awaiting  them  in  the 
confessional;  by  the  bed  of  the  dying,  consoling  and  exhort- 
ing, or  by  the  side  of  youth,  guiding  and  protecting,  encour- 
aging or  chiding-,  he  was  ever  the  same — the  indefatigable 
bishop,  who  knew  no  self,  only  God   and  the  things  of  God. 
Preaching    retreats,     erecting    temples,    founding    convents, 
giving  instructions  in  his  universal  character  of  missionary, 
he  died  as  he  had   lived — a  true  soldier  of  Christ,  a  man   of 
God.     It  is  the  most  beautiful  episode,  perhaps,   in  the  Cath- 
olic annals  of  the  United  States.      His  last  public  act  was  to 
celebrate   Mass   and   ask  the   prayers    of  the  people  for   the 
grace  of  a  happy  death;  his  last  words  were  an   invocation  of 
charity.     It  was  meet  that  he  should  have  been  brought  here 
to  repose  under  the  altar  that  he   built;  it  was  right  that  he 
should  have  come  among  his  own  for  their  prayers — those  to 
whom  he  had  given  a  life's  earnest  labors.      It  was  fitting  that 
his  virtues  and  his  memory  should  be  placed  before  the  peo- 
ple whom  he  so  loved,  for  whom  he  had  so  labored." 

In  1887,  Bishop  Gilmour  authorized  his  Vicar  General, 
Mgr.  Boff,  to  raise  a  fund  by  collections  in  the  churches  of 
the  diocese,  for  a  monument  to  be  erected  to  the  memory  of 
Bishop  Rappe.  The  response  of  the  diocese  was  most  gener- 
ous. Since  then  a  fine  marble  bust  of  the  deceased  Prelate 
has  been  executed  and  placed  in  the  Bishop's  residence  and  in 
October,  1888,  a  life  size  statue  in  bronze  of  Bishop  Rappe 
in  full  pontifical  robes  was  cast  in  Rome.  It  will  be  placed 
either  in  the  vestibule  of  the  cathedral  or  on  a  large  pedestal 
on  the  cathedral  grounds  facing  Superior  street. 


BISHOP  RAPPE.  75 

Few  men  on  the  missions  of  America  ever  excelled  Bishop 
Rappe  in  the  line  of  his  work.  Untiring  in  zeal,  patient  in 
hardship,  generous,  unselfish,  no  labor  seemed  to  weary  or 
exhaust  him.  Tall  and  wiry,  quick  and  elastic  in  motion,  good 
li  is  aim,  suffering  and  sorrow  the  objects  of  his  charity,  he  lived 
for  religion  and  his  kind.  Ill-versed  in  English,  because 
learned  late  in  life,  defective  in  early  education,  yet  by  nature's 
gifts  and  his  own  energy  of  character,  he  ranked  as  an  orator 
of  more  than  ordinary  powers.  His  wont  was  to  preach 
thrice  every  Sunday — frequently  four  and  five  times — always 
to  a  different  audience,  and  often  in  churches  miles  distant 
from  each  other.  He  was  great  as  a  missionary  rather  than 
as  a  bishop,  and  excelled  as  a  pioneer  who  explored  and  out- 
lined, leaving  to  others  to  shape  and  consolidate.  A  lover  of 
his  native  land,  he  gave  not  only  his  allegiance  but  his  most 
ardent  support  to  his  adopted  country.  A  true  patriot,  a 
Christian  man,  tolerant  of  dissent,  conceding  to  others  what 
he  asked  for  himself— religious  and  civil  liberty — he  died,  at 
the  ripe  old  age  of  seventy-six,  thirty  years  of  which  he  had 
spent  as  priest  and  bishop  on  the  missions  of  Ohio.  He  died 
amid  the  tears  of  his  people,  and  the  respect  of  his  fellow- 
citizens,  with  the  well-merited  reputation  of  a  life  spent  for 
God  and  the  good  of  his  fellowmen. 


BIOGRAPHICAL   SKETCH 


—  OF    THE 


RIGHT    REV.    RICHARD  GILMOUR,  SECOND  AND 

PRESENT  BISHOP  OF  CLEVELAND, 

SINCE  APRIL,   1872. 

Richard  Gilmour  was  the  only  child  of  John  and  Marion 
Gilmour.  He  was  born  in  the  city  of  Glasgow,  Scotland,  Sep- 
tember 28,  1824.  His  parents  were  in  comfortable  circum- 
stances and  strict  Scotch  covenanters.  In  1829,  when  Rich- 
ard was  in  his  fifth  year,  they  emigrated  to  Nova  Scotia,  but 
a  few  years  later  moved  to  Pennsylvania  and  settled  on  a 
farm  near  Latrobe,  where  their  son  attended  the  district 
schools.  Not  satisfied  with  the  training  there  received,  he 
made  every  effort  to  improve  his  mind  by  home  reading. 
His  love  for  books  was  fostered  by  his  parents,  who  gave  him 
every  facility  in  this  regard  their  means  afforded.  With  his 
studious  habits  and  retentive  memory  he  soon  acquired  a 
knowledge  of  general  literature,  history  and  mathematics 
much  beyond  that  of  boys  of  his  age.  He  also  gained  consid- 
erable proficiency  in  music,  which  in  later  years  came  him  in 
good  stead,  and  was  indirectly  the  means  that  brought  him 
into  the  Catholic  Church.  After  completing  the  branches 
taught  in  the  common  schools  his  parents  sent  him  to  Phila- 
delphia, there  to  attend  the  more  advanced  schools.  At  this 
time  he  was  in  his  eighteenth  year,  and  till  then  he  had  never 
met  with  or  spoken  to  a  Catholic  priest.  The  Rev.  Patrick 
Rafferty  was  then  stationed  at  Philadelphia  as  pastor  of  St. 
Francis'  Church,  (Fairmount,)  located  near  the  school  which 
young  Richard  attended.  In  this  church  was  an  organ  on 
which  Father  Rafferty  kindly  allowed  him  to  practice  during 


-■■*>-;. 


Right  Reverend  R.  Gilmoi  k,  D.  D. 


BISHOP  GILMOUR.  77 

the  week.  Father  Rafferty's  earnest  and  withal  kindly  ways 
won  the  heart  of  Richard  so  much  that  his  inbred  prejudice 
against  the  Catholic  clergy  yielded  sufficiently  to  permit  him 
to  entertain  a  sincere  esteem  for  this  the  first  priest  he  ever 
met.  This  esteem  soon  ripened  into  the  closer  relation  of 
friendship.  Occasionally  he  attended  the  Sunday  services 
held  by  Father  Rafferty,  whose  sermons  struck  him  as  clear, 
pointed  and  instructive.  Richard,  naturally  of  an  inquiring 
mind,  began  of  his  own  accord  to  direct  his  attention  to  the 
study  of  Catholic  doctrine,  which  for  him  had  been  thus  far 
a  sealed  book.  All  his  reading  was  now  turned  in  that  direc- 
tion. Finally,  convinced  in  his  own  mind  he  could  no  longer 
conscientiously  profess  and  believe  as  he  had  been  trained  in 
his  childhood,  he  went  to  Father  Rafferty  for  further  instruc- 
tions. Two  years  after  he  made  the  acquaintance  of  this 
priest,  and  after  calmly  reflecting  on  the  important  step,  he 
was  received  into  the  Church  by  his  friend  Father  Rafferty. 
His  parents  were  indeed  much  surprised  at  this,  but  they  had 
the  good  sense  not  to  interfere  with  what  the  son  honestly 
believed  in  this  important  matter  to  be  his  duty.  In  fact, 
they  followed  his  example;  first  his  mother  and  some  years 
after  her  his  father. 

Richard  was  now  in  his  twentieth  year,  and  felt  he  must 
choose  his  role  in  the  drama  of  life.  After  calm  reflection, 
aided  by  the  advice  of  his  spiritual  guide,  Father  Rafferty,  he 
resolved  to  enter  the  priesthood.  To  fit  himself  for  this  impor- 
tant step,  he  entered  Mount  St.  Mary's  college  and  seminary, 
Emmittsburg,  Md.,  September,  1846,  where  by  his  ecclesi- 
astical spirit,  earnestness  of  purpose  and  diligence  in  study  he 
soon  won  the  esteem  of  his  superiors  and  the  respect  of  his 
fellow  students.  As  an  evidence  of  the  confidence  reposed  in 
him  he  was  appointed  prefect  of  the  collegians  and  professor  of 
the  higher  mathematics  within  one  year  after  entering  Mount 

St.  Mary's.    These  positions  he  held  till  the  md  of  tin-  seminary 
course.     Owing  to  the  fact  that  he  was  far  advanced  in  his 

studies    before    entering   college    he    completed    the    collegiate 

course  two  years  later  (1848),  when  In-  received  the  degree 


78  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

of  master  of  arts.  At  the  completion  of  the  theological 
course  he  was  received  by  Archbishop  Purcell  for  the  dio- 
cese of  Cincinnati,  and  was  ordained  priest  by  him  in  the 
cathedral  of  that  city,  August  30,  1852.  His  first  field  of 
missionary  labor,  to  which  he  was  sent  in  September  of  the 
same  year,  embraced  Portsmouth,  as  his  place  of  residence, 
Ironton  and  Gallipolis,  besides  a  number  of  missions  and  sta- 
tions in  the  neighborhood  and  in  northeastern  Kentucky  and 
West  Virginia.  In  all  these  places  he  labored  with  zeal,  but 
not  without  encountering  many  hardships  and  difficulties  of 
the  most  trying  kind.  His  was  the  lot  of  the  pioneer  mission- 
ary, borne  with  patience,  but  crowned  with  success.  In 
April,  1857,  he  was  appointed  successor  to  Rev.  James  F. 
Wood  (the  late  Archbishop  of  Philadelphia),  as  pastor  of  St. 
Patrick's  church,  Cincinnati.  Here  his  administrative  quali- 
ties and  pastoral  zeal  had  full  sway,  and  well  did  he  come  up 
to  the  expectations  of  Archbishop  Purcell.  During  his  pas- 
torate St.  Patrick's  grew  and  flourished;  under  his  direction  a 
fine  school  building  was  erected,  the  parochial  school  system 
was  brought  to  a  high  degree  of  perfection,  and  all  else  per- 
taining to  the  spiritual  and  temporal  welfare  of  his  charge 
was  done,  with  most  gratifying  results. 

Feeling  the  need  of  some  respite  from  the  incessant  strain 
in  connection  with  pastoral  work,  done  unremittingly  since 
his  ordination,  and  desirous  of  devoting  some  time  to  lit- 
erary pursuits,  so  congenial  to  his  taste,  he  asked  for  and 
obtained  a  professorship  in  Mt.  St.  Mary's  seminary,  Cincin- 
nati. But  his  valuable  services  as  a  pastor  were  not  long  to 
be  dispensed  with,  as  he  remained  at  the  seminary  only  a 
little  more  than  a  year — April,  1868,  to  July,  1869.  He  was 
called  to  fill  a  vacancy  in  the  important  and  at  the  same  time 
disturbed  parish  of  St.  Joseph's,  Dayton.  His  prudent  man- 
agement and  business  tact  soon  brought  things  to  rights  in 
this  new  field  of  labor,  so  that  in  1872,  when  he  was  called  to 
the  high  and  responsible  position  he  now  holds,  St.  Joseph's 
congregation,  Dayton,  was  left  by  him  in  a  most  prosperous 
condition. 


BISHOP  GILMOUR.  79 

The  diocese  of  Cleveland  was  without  a  bishop  since  August 
1870.     Factions  had  done  disastrous  work,  and  the  diocese  had 
become  a  by-word  throughout  the  country.     Whom  to  appoint 
under  these  difficult  circumstances  as  successor  to  good  Bishop 
Rappe,  who  had  been   made  the  victim  of  faction  and  discord 
— a   man   loved  by  his  people  and  universally  respected  by 
those  not  of  the  Fold— was  a  question  not  so  easily  answered. 
Finally,  after  much    deliberation,  Rome   decided  to  appoint 
from   the  several  candidates  presented  by  the  Bishops  of  the 
province  of  Cincinnati,  the  Rev.  Richard  Gilmour  as  the  one 
best   fitted  for   this  most  difficult  position.      Father  Gilmour 
well  knew  what  was  asked  of  him  when  made  acquainted  with 
his  appointment.      But  trusting  in  God,  and  not  shirking  from 
duty  where   and   when   duty   called,  he  obeyed  the  call  and 
accepted  the  burden.     He  was  consecrated  Bishop  of  Cleve- 
land by  Archbishop  Purcell  in    the  cathedral    at  Cincinnati 
April    14,  1872.     A  few  days  later  he  took  possession  of  his 
cathedral  church  at   Cleveland,  thus  relieving  Very  Rev.  F. 
llannin,  who  had  filled  the  office  of  Administrator  of  the  dio- 
cese since  August,    1870.     Cares,  difficulties  and   trials  were 
again  his  lot,  but  in  a  greater  degree  and  of  graver  form  than 
when  first  he  became  a  priest.      Within  his  sphere  of  office  he 
had   contentions  to   meet   and  opposition  to  encounter  which 
came  from  the  same  sources  that  opposed  the  administrations 
of  Bishop    Rappe,   and    V.    Rev.     Father    llannin,    and   which 
taxed   all   his  prudence    and   energy.      From   without   he  was 
considered  with  disfavor  by  the  non-Catholic  friends  of  the 
revered    Bishop   Rappe.     This  disfavor  was  intensified  when 
Bishop    Gilmour    published   his    first     pastoral    litter,     March, 
[873.       In   it   he  fearlessly  discussed  and  defended  the  citi- 
zen    rights    of     Catholics,     who     had     till      then     been     looked 

upon  as  "hewers  of  wood  and  drawers  of  water,"  and  seem- 
ingly took  that  position,  rather  than  that  of  equals  oi  their 
non-Catholic    fellow    citizens.     In    the    same    letter    he    also 

plained    and     defended     the     panuhial     school     system     and 

insisted  on  its  acceptance  by  his  people,  many  of  whom  had 
thus  far  opposed  it.     For  these  hold  ami  fearless  utterances 


So  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

of  views  he  was  fiercely  attacked  by  the  local  press  and  pulpit, 
as  well  as  by  the  press  at  large.  But  in  spite  of  assault, 
calumny  and  misrepresentation  he  pursued  the  path  of  duty 
as  he  saw  it  and  forced  the  public  to  acknowledge  at  least 
that  he  cared  not  for  public  opinion,  if  it  ran  counter  to  what 
he  considered  himself  bound  to  do  and  say. 

Meanwhile  the  strain  of  incessant  work  and  care  told  on 
his  constitution.  June  24,  1874,  while  attending  the  com- 
mencement exercises  at  St.  Mary's  academy,  Notre  Dame, 
Indiana,  he  fell  seriously  ill  of  nervous  prostration.  For  two 
years  he  was  unable  to  attend  to  the  affairs  of  his  diocese 
and  for  months  was  at  the  brink  of  death.  His  physicians 
ordered  him  to  take  absolute  rest,  and  directed  he  should  go 
to  southern  France  for  his  health,  which  he  did.  June  I, 
1876,  he  returned  to  Cleveland,  to  the  great  joy  of  his  people, 
who  received  him  with  an  ovation  of  welcome.  Though  not 
fully  restored  to  health  he  resumed  his  episcopal  duties  by 
degrees  and  gradually  regained  his  former  strength  and  vigor. 
In  1877  he  began  to  systematize  the  business  affairs  of  his 
diocese;  had  all  the  deeds  of  church  property  indexed  and 
plats  made  of  every  parcel  of  church  land;  blank  forms  and 
registers  covering  all  the  details  of  diocesan  and  parochial 
affairs  were  introduced,  so  that  within  a  few  years  the  diocese 
of  Cleveland  took  front  rank  with  the  best  regulated  dioceses 
of  the  country  for  its  thorough  system  and  order. 

His  jurisdiction  embraces  the  whole  of  Northern  Ohio,  viz.: 
all  the  territory  north  of  the  southern  limits  of  the  counties 
of  Columbiana,  Stark,  Wayne,  Ashland,  Richland,  Crawford, 
Wyandot,  Allen  and  Van  Wert,  thirty-six  counties  in  all. 
There  are  at  present  (Sept.  1,  1887,)  225  churches  in  the 
diocese,  187  priests,  secular  and  regular,  126  parochial  schools, 
7  orphan  asylums,  besides  a  number  of  other  charitable  and 
religious  institutions,  all  requiring  and  receiving  his  careful 
supervision.  The  clergy  is  a  most  zealous,  hard-working 
body  of  men,  co-operating  with  the  Bishop  in  all  that  pertains 
to  the  best  interests  of  the  diocese.  The  laity,  numbering 
upwards  of  200,000,   is   in  harmony  with  Bishop  and  clergy, 


BISHOP  GILMOUR.  81 

generously  responding  to  every  call  made  by  faith  or  charity. 
All  in  all,  Bishop  Gilmour  is  at  the  head  of  a  diocese  second 
to  none  in  the  United  States  in  point  of  organization  and 
Catholic  vigor  and  strength. 

Above  was  remarked  the  disfavor  in  which  Bishop 
Gilmour  was  held  by  the  non-Catholic  citizens  of  Cleveland 
for  his  public  utterances.  This  has  been  thoroughly  changed. 
Till  [88l  he  never  had  an  opportunity  offered  him  of  address- 
ing his  fellow-citizens  as  such.  His  first  appearance  in  public 
as  a  citizen  was  on  the  occasion  of  the  Garfield  meeting 
luld  in  the  Public  Square,  July  4,  1881,  when  the  citizens  of 
Cleveland  assembled  to  give  expression  of  sympathy  with 
the  assassinated  President,  then  at  the  point  of  death.  To 
most  of  that  vast  audience  the  Bishop  was  a  stranger.  After 
his  speech,  most  eloquent  and  patriotic,  Bishop  Gilmour 
gained  and  ever  since  has  held  the  esteem  and  respect  of 
Cleveland's  citizens.  At  the  congress  of  churches,  which 
held  its  sessions  in  Cleveland,  O.,  May,  1886,  he  was  invited 
to  speak.  The  subject  assigned  him,  "  Religion  in  the  Public 
Schools,"  was  treated  in  a  thoughtful  and  masterly  manner, 
and  he  held  his  immense  and  varied  audience  spell-bound. 
The  address  was  copied  fully  or  in  part  by  the  leading  jour- 
nals of  the  country.  Since  188 1  he  has  been  called  upon 
repeatedly  to  speak  in  public,  always  receiving  a  most 
respectful  hearing,  even  on  the  part  of  those  who  dissent 
from  his  views. 

In  tin-  Church  he  also  holds  the  position  of  a  thoughtful 
and  prudent  prelate.  In  the  IV  Provincial  Council  of  Cin- 
cinnati, and  1 1 1  Plenary  Council  of  Baltimore,  he  took  a  prom- 
inent  part  in  tlu-  deliberations.  In  the  summer  of  [885  he 
was  delegated  by  tin-  Archbishops  of  this  country  t<>  go  to 
Rome  in  tin-  interests  of  tin-  decrees  of  the  Baltimore  council, 
senl  there  tor  review  and  approval.     He  had  been  there  three 

years    previous    on    his    official    visit    in    connection     with    his 

administration  of  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  lie  was,  there- 
fore, in.  stranger  to  the  Roman  authorities,  who  now,  as  then, 
received  him  most  kindly.     This  mission,  performed  in  con 


82  BIOGRAPHICAL  SKETCH  OF 

nection   with  two   other  bishops  who   had  preceded   him   to 
Rome,  was  most  successful. 

Bishop  Gilmour  has  a  national  reputation  as  a  defender 
and  promoter  of  the  Catholic  parochial  school  system.  Feel- 
ing the  want  of  good  readers  for  the  schools  under  his  juris- 
diction, he  compiled  a  series  himself,  known  as  the  Catholic 
National  Readers,  six  in  all.  They  are  in  use  throughout  the 
United  States,  as  is  also  the  Bible  History,  published  by  him 
when  a  parish  priest.  He  has  made  it  incumbent  on  the 
parishes  of  his  diocese  to  have  parochial  schools  when  at  all 
possible.  March,  1887,  he  also  published  a  code  of  rules  and 
regulations  governing  these  schools,  one  feature  being  the 
annual  examination,  by  a  diocesan  board  of  examiners,  of  the 
teachers  engaged  therein,  and  an  annual  examination,  by  dis- 
trict school  boards  composed  of  priests  and  laymen,  of  all 
pupils  attending  the  parochial  schools.  It  is  his  aim  to  make 
these  schools  at  least  equal  to  the  public  schools. 

In  1876  he  tested  before  the  courts  what  he  considered 
the  unjust  taxation  of  the  parochial  schools  of  Cleveland. 
Although  the  supreme  court  of  Ohio  had  decided  the  ques- 
tion in  the  celebrated  Purcell-Gerke  suit,  that  Catholic  schools 
were  not  taxable,  one  of  the  Cuyahoga  county  auditors  (Mr. 
Benedict,)  regardless  of  this  decision,  placed  the  Catholic 
schools  of  Cleveland  on  the  tax  duplicate.  The  Bishop 
entered  suit  of  restraint,  the  common  pleas,  circuit  and 
supreme  courts  deciding  in  his  favor. 

Recognizing  the  power  and  influence  of  the  press,  and 
desirous  of  giving  the  large  and  influential  Catholic  body  of 
Northern  Ohio  a  defender  of  Catholic  thought  and  rights,  to 
meet  the  almost  daily  assaults  and  insults  heaped  upon  it  by 
an  antagonistic  press,  notably  those  of  a  certain  paper,  fittingly 
characterized  by  the  Hon.  B.  F.  Wade,  the  Bishop  established 
the  Catholic  Universe,  July  4,  1874.  Rev.  T.  P.  Thorpe  was 
its  first  editor.  Mr.  Manly  Tello,  the  present  editor,  succeeded 
him  in  September,  1877,  and  both  these  gentlemen  did, 
and  the  latter  is  still  doing,  excellent  work  in  Catholic  jour- 
nalism. 


BISHOP  GILMOUR.  83 

Kishop  Gilmour  is  a  man  of  strong  individuality,  firm, 
bold,  fearless.  As  a  preacher  and  public  speaker  he  impresses 
with  his  eloquence,  calm  thought  and  earnestness.  As  a 
writer  he  is  pointed  and  wields  a  strong  pen,  even  trenchant 
at  times.  His  style  is  the  simplest,  terse  in  expression,  clear 
as  his  speech.  Tall,  commanding  in  appearance,  with  a 
markedly  intellectual  countenance,  he  would  be  singled  out 
in  any  assembly  as  a  man  of  force  and  strength  of  character. 
Not  quick  to  express  his  views,  he  seldom,  if  ever,  recedes 
from  them  when  once  expressed.  Strictly  just  and  fair-minded 
in  his  dealings,  he  resents  keenly  any  injustice  or  deception. 
Kind  and  forbearing  with  weakness,  he  is  just  as  ready  to 
measure  swords  with  insult  or  assault,  within  the  limits  of 
his  official  position.  At  first  sight  he  impresses  one  as  stern 
and  reserved,  but  those  who  know  him  as  he  is,  know  his 
kindness  of  heart  and  generous  impulses.  As  a  conversation- 
alist he  has  few  superiors.  With  a  fund  of  anecdote  and 
quiet  humor,  and  a  retentive  memory  of  his  reading  and 
travels,  he  is  most  entertaining  in  any  circle.  He  is  frugal 
in  his  habits,  methodical  and  painstaking  in  his  work.  Few 
men  in  like  position  spend  more  hours  at  "desk  work"  than 
Bishop  Gilmour.  He  governs  his  diocese  as  much  with  his 
pen  as  with  the  crosier.  Thoroughly  American  in  senti- 
ment, he  has,  nevertheless,  an  impartial  respect  and  a  kindly 
feeling  for  all  nationalities  composing  his  flock. 


BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES 

OF 

PRIESTS      OF      THE      SECULAR      AND      REGULAR 

CLERGY,  FORMERLY    ON    THE   MISSION  IN 

NORTHERN     OHIO,    OR    IN    THE 

DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND: 


BETWEEN    l8l8    AND    NOVEMBER,    1 888. 

i.  ABBREDERIS,  Rev.  Rudolf,  (Sanguinist,)  was  born  at 
Rankweil,  near  Feldkirch,  Austria,  September  18,  1850;  came 
to  the  United  States  in  1869;  was  educated  by  the  Sanguinists 
in  their  seminary  at  Carthagena,  Mercer  Co.,  O.,  where  he  was 
ordained  for  them  by  Archbishop  Purcell,  August  15,  1873.  He 
had  the  following  charges  in  this  diocese:  Ottawa,  August, 
1878,  to  August,  1882;  Big  Springs,  August,  1882,  to  Novem- 
ber, 1885,  when  he  left  the  Sanguinists,  and  diocese. 

2.  Abel,  Rev.  Anthony  J.,  was  born  November  11,  1833, 
at  Burgau,  Bavaria;  completed  his  studies  for  the  priesthood 
at  St.  Mary's  Seminary  Cleveland,  where  he  was  ordained  by 
Bishop  Rappe,  June  28,  1863.  Monroeville  was  his  first 
appointment,  which  he  retained  till  October,  1864,  when  he 
was  sent  to  Ottoville  as  first  resident  pastor.  July,  1865,  he 
was  sent  to  Shelby  Settlement  where  he  remained  till  1867, 
when  he  left  the  diocese  and  went  to  Colorado.  He  is  now 
chaplain  of  the  Union  Pacific  R.  R.  Hospital,  at  Denver,    Col. 

3.  Aboulin,  Rev.  John,  J.  M.,  (Basilian,)  was  born  at  St. 
Alban-en-Montagne,  diocese  of  Viviers,  France,  March  18, 
1 841;  was  ordained  for  the  Basilians  at  Annonay,  France,  by 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  85 

Bishop  de  Charbonnel,  September  21,  1867.  Was  in  this 
diocese  as  professor  at  Louisville  College  from  February. 
1868  till  September,  1870.  Returned  to  Sandwich,  Canada, 
and  since  1870  has  been  doing  pastoral  duty  there,  at  Assump- 
tion Church. 

4.  AHERN,  Rev.  Joseph  Loughlin,  was  born  at  Knuck- 
ancummer,  County  Cork,  September  20,  1847.  He  made  his 
studies  for  the  ministry  at  All  Hollows',  Dublin,  and  St. 
Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland.  He  was  ordained  for  the  diocese 
of  Cleveland  by  Bishop  Fitzgerald,  July  4,  1875,  and  appointed 
pastor  of  Alliance,  August,  1875.  This  charge  he  held  till 
August,  1877,  when  he  met  with  a  serious  accident  by  breaking 
one  of  his  legs.  He  was  taken  to  the  Charity  Hospital,  Cleve- 
land, for  treatment.  In  August,  1878,  he  resumed  pastoral 
work  as  assistant  to  Rev.  M.  Ileal)',  at  St.  Mary's,  Tiffin, 
remaining  till  October  of  same  year,  when  he  was  appointed 
assistant  at  St.  Francis',  Toledo.  June,  1879,  he  resigned  this 
position  and,  for  the  benefit  of  his  shattered  health,  went  on 
leave  of  indefinite  absence  to  Ireland,  and  later  (1881)  to  New 
Zealand,  where  he  is  now    laboring  on  the  mission. 

5.  Albrecht,  Rev.  J.  M.    Sanguinist),  was  bom  in  Ger- 
many, fanuary  6,    1800.      He  was  ordained  by   Bishop  Rappe, 

June  4.  [849.  From  Thompson  lie  attended  Peru,  I  luroii  count}', 
in  [849;  was  assistant  at  Thompson  till  June,  1856,  when  he 
was  sent  to  Liverpool.  There  he  remained  till  May,  [859,  when 
he  left  the  SanguinistS  and  diocese  and  went  to  Minnesota, 
where  In-  died  in  March,   [884. 

6.  ALEMANY,  Most  Rev.  Joseph  Sadoc,  Dominican  .  was 
born  at  Vuh,  in  the  province  of  Catalonia,  [814  He  entered 
the  Dominican  Order  in  [829,  and  was  ordained  at  Viterbo, 
!)\  Bishop  Pianetto,  in  [837.  Soon  after  his  ordination  he  was 
sent  t<»  Koine,  when  he  was  stationed  at  the  church  of  Santa 
Maria  Sopra  Minerva  till  [841,  when  he  was  sent  to  the  Amer- 
ican mi s-,i< >i)s.  He  came  t<>  <  mio, and  was  stationed  at  Canton 
for  . 1  tew  months.     He  also  attended   Dungannon,  and  was  the 


86  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

first  priest  to  visit  the  Catholics  at  Mansfield.  His  next  field 
of  labor  was  at  Memphis,  Term.,  as  successor  to  Father  McAleer, 
in  1846.  In  the  following  year  he  was  elected  Provincial  of 
his  Order  in  the  United  States.  While  at  Rome  in  1850, 
attending  a  General  Chapter  of  the  Dominican  Order,  he  was 
consecrated  Bishop  of  Monterey,  Cal.,  June  13,  1850.  Three 
years  later  he  was  appointed  Archbishop  of  San  Francisco, 
which  office  he  resigned,  November,  1884,  and  returned  to 
Spain,  where  he  died  a  saintly  death,  April  14,  1888. 

7.  Alio,  Rev.  L.  M.  (Redemptorist),  was  born  at  Pinen, 
Switzerland,  November  1,  1805,  and  was  ordained  September 
18,  1839.  He  attended  St.  Alphonse's  congregation,  Peru, 
Huron  county,  Ohio,  with  Father  Tschenhens  from  June,  1841, 
till  November,  1843.'  Later  he  left  the  Redemptorists  and 
was  for  many  years  pastor  of  St.  Mary's  Church,  Washington 
City,  where  he  died  June  9,  1882. 

8.  ALLEMAN,  Rev.  John  George  (Dominican),  a  native  of 
Alsace,  was  ordained  at  Zanesville  Ohio,  by  Bishop  Purcell, 
June  i,  1834.  In  1836  he  was  resident  pastor  of  St.  Johns, 
Canton,  whence  he  also  attended  Louisville,  where  he  built  the 
first  church.  About  1840  he  left  Ohio  and  went  to  Iowa,  labor- 
ing with  much  zeal,  there  and  in  Illinois  on  the  widespread 
and  difficult  missions.  His  health  began  to  fail  about  i860. 
Three  years  later,  Nov.  26,  1863,  he  went  to  St.  Vincent's 
Asylum,  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  died  July  14,  1865,  aged  59 
years.     He  was  a  faithful  and  hard  working  priest. 

9.  ALLWARD,  Rev.  John,  was  first  resident  pastor  of  Ash- 
tabula for  fourteen  months,  from  May,  1862,  till  July,  1863,  and 
attended  South  Thompson  as  a  mission.  This  was  the  only 
appointment  he  had  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  No  other 
record  of  him. 

10.  ANDERSON,  Rev.  Henry,  came  from  Ireland  on  a  visit 
to  his  cousin,  the  Rev.  E.  Hannin,  of  St.  Patrick's,  Toledo, 
whose  assistant  he  was  for  some  months  in  1868,  and  as  such 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  87 

attended,    for  a  while,    the    congregation    of   the    Immaculate 
Conception,  Toledo,  just  then  organized. 

11.  ANDRESCHECK,  Rev.  Alardus,  (TTanciscan),  born  at 
Breslau,  Silesia,  May  29,  1839,  was  educated  for  the  priesthood 
at  Paderborn,  and  ordained  at  Teutopolis,  111.,  by  Bishop 
Juncker,  February  7,  1868.  He  was  sent  to  the  Cleveland 
Monastery,  as  assistant  at  St.  Joseph's  Church,  January  23, 
1X77;  was  appointed  pastor  of  the  same  church,  July  16,  1885, 
retaining  this  position  till  August,  [888,  when  his  superior 
transferred  him  to  Teutopolis,  111.,  where  he  now  resides. 

12.  ANTL,  Rev.  Francis  Joseph,  was  born  at  Jesenec, 
Moravia,  Austria,  March  30,  1843;  ordained  at  Bruenn, 
Austria,  July  11,  1869;  came  to  America  in  1869;  was  in  the 
diocese  of  Cleveland  as  pastor  of  St.  Procop's,  Cleveland,  from 
May,  1882,  till  Jul)-,  [883.  Then  he  went  to  the  diocese  of 
Chicago;  is  now  stationed  at  Savannah,  111. 

13.  AUGUSTINSKY,  Rev.  Cyril,  (Franciscan),  a  Moravian, 
was  born  at  Braunsburg,  March  21,  1851.  Me  studied  for  the 
ministry  at  Kremsier,  Archdiocese  of  Olmuetz,  and  was 
ordained  for  the  Franciscans,  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  by  Bishop 
Ryan,  July  25,  1877.  He  labored  on  the  mission  in  Missouri 
and  Nebraska  till  July,  1885,  when  he  was  sent  by  his  superior 
to  the  Franciscan  Monastery,  at  Cleveland,  whence  he  attended 
Independence.  lie  left  the  Franciscan  order,  May,  1  s s 7 , 
and  by  dispensation  was  affiliated  with  the  diocese  of  Little 
Rock,  where  he  is  now    stationed. 

14.  Ai  STERMANN,  V.  Rev.  Bernard,  (Sanguinist),  a  native 
of  Prussia,  was  born  at-  Everswinkel,  Westphalia,  April  5,  1S24; 
was  educated  for  the  priesthood  at  Thompson,  <  '.,  and  there 
ordained  for  the  Sanguinists  by  Bishop  Rappe,  fune  13.  [856. 
From  New  Riegel  he  attended  Fostoria  and  Crawfordsville, 
July,  [856  to  February,  1857-     He  was  then  appointed  pastor 

ol  Thompson,    remaining  till  September,    I  S 5 7 .      Since   then  he 

had  various  >fdutj  ned  him  in  other  dioceses  where 


88  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE      ^ 

the  Sanguinists  have  charge  of  congregations.  He  was  also 
for  some  years  their  Provincial.  He  is  now  in  the  diocese  of 
Nashville. 

15.  BADIN,  V.  Rev.  Stephen  Theodore,  the  first  priest 
ordained  in  the  United  States,  was  a  native  of  Orleans,  France, 
where  he  was  born  July  27,  1768.  He  came  to  Baltimore, 
March  28,  1792,  and  was  there  ordained  by  Archbishop  Carroll, 
May  25,  1793.  For  many  years  he  labored  on  the  mission  in 
Kentucky  and  Ohio.  He  did  pastoral  duty  at  Canton,  Canal 
Fulton,  Cleveland,  Fremont  and  Tiffin,  between  1835  and  1837. 
He  was  a  man  of  fine,  cultivated  mind,  of  great  energy  and 
indomitable  zeal.  He  was  Vicar  General  of  the  dioceses  of 
Bardstown,  Ky.,  and  Cincinnati.  Died  in  the  latter  city,  April 
19,  1853. 

16.  BALLY,  Rev.  William,  was  born  in  the  city  of  Bonn, 
Prussia,  May,  4,  183  1;  educated  at  Bonn  and  Paris;  came  to 
Cleveland,  December,  1856,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop 
Rappe  for  this  diocese  July  26,  1857.  He  was  assistant  at 
St.  Peter's  Cleveland,  till  November  of  same  year,  when  he 
received  the  pastorate  of  St.  Nicholas'  congregation,  Berwick, 
Seneca  county,  remaining  till  July,  1861,  when  he  left  the 
diocese.  October,  1861,  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Mary's 
church,  Galena,  111.,  which  charge  he  still  holds. 

17.  Barrier,  Rev.  Charles,  was  born  of  Protestant 
parents  at  Strassburg,  Alsace,  in  1829.  He  entered  the 
French  artillery,  and  whilst  serving  his  term  became  a 
Catholic.  He  shortly  after  resolved  to  study  for  the  priest- 
hood. After  leaving  the  army  he  made  his  preparatory 
studies  at  Strassburg.  In  1862  Bishop  Rappe  adopted  him 
for  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  and  ordained  him  toward  the 
end  of  the  same  year.  He  was  at  the  seminary  for  a  few 
months  as  professor  of  Philosophy,  and  had,  besides,  Inde- 
pendence as  his  first  pastoral  charge.  From  April  to  Novem- 
ber, 1863,  he  had  temporary  charge  of  St.  Louis' congregation, 
Louisville,  during  the  absence,  in   Europe,  of  the  pastor,  Rev. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  89 

L.  Hoffer.  He  then  had,  successively,  the  following  pastoral 
charges  in  this  diocese:  Poplar  Ridge  (now  New  Bavaria). 
[863-65,  where  he  began  the  erection  of  the  church  destroyed 
by  fire  in  1887;  first  resident  pastor  of  Six  Mile  Woods,  1865— 
67;  Millersville,  1867-68;  Avon,  March,  1868,  to  September, 
[871;  Milan,  1871  to  August,  1872;  Youngstown,  St.  Joseph's, 
August,  1872  to  April,  1873;  first  resident  pastor  of  New 
Cleveland,  April,  1873  to  March,  1874.  His  last  charge  was 
St.  Joseph's  Church,  Fort  Jennings,  March,  [874,  till  death, 
August  23,  1876. 

[8.  BEGEL,  Rev.  John  Joseph,  was  born  in  France,  April 
5,  1 8  17,  where  also  he  was  ordained  December  18,  1841.  He 
established' the  community  known  as  the  Sisters  of  the  Humil- 
ity. B.  V.  M.,  August  1854.  He  came  to  America,  Jul}-,  1864, 
and  founded  the  present  flourishing  convent  of  same  Sisters  at 
\  w  Bedford.  Pa.,  by  special  agreement  under  the  jurisdiction 
of  the  Bishop  of  Cleveland.  Father  Begel  was  an  exemplary 
priest,  and  a  man  of  profound  and  varied  learning.  He  wrote  a 
historical  description  of  "The  Way  of  the  Cross,'  published  in 
[880.  It  is  an  admirable  and  interesting  book,  containing  per- 
gonal observations  of  his  journey  made  some  years  previous  to 
ferusalem  and  other  places  in  Palestine.  He  died  at  New 
Bedford,  after  an  illness  of  about  four  years,  January  23,  1884. 

[9.  BEHRENS,  Rev.  I  Univ.  was  born  at  Duesselldorf, 
Prussia;  ordained  by  Bishop  Kappe,  July  30,  [861;  attended 
Avon,  September,  [861  to  March,  1862;  was  pastor  of  Findlay 
from  [862  to  Inly,  [863,  and  during  that  time  attended  tin 
missions  oi  Fostoria  and  Liberty.  He  was  transferred  to  Six 
Mile  Woods,  [863,  where  he  remained  but  a  few  months  after 
having  begun  the  erection  of  a  church.  His  next  charge  was 
Maumee,  December,  1863-65-  During  the  latter  year  he  also 
attended  Perrysburg  as  a  mission.  In  the  fall  of  [865  he 
received  charge  of  French  Creek.  I  lis  next  appointment  was 
Millersville  Greensburg  .  November,  [866,  to  August,  [867. 
rhen  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Shelby  Settlement,  September, 
III  rein. lined  here  till  [869,  when  he  left  the  diocese 
and  returned  to  Europe,  where  he  died  .1  few  years  later. 


9° 


BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 


20.  BERANEK,  Rev.  George  A.  (Redemptorist),  was  born 
at  Mistek,  Olmuetz,  Austria,  April  23,  1806;  ordained  July  22, 
[834;  in  the  United  States  since  June,  1843;  had  temporary 
charge  of  St.  Wenceslas'  congregation,  Cleveland,  from  Sep- 
tember, 1868,  to  February,  1869,  as  Bishop  Rappe  had  no 
Bohemian  priest  during  that  time.  -Since  1869,  Father  Beranek 
has  been  stationed  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  where  he  is  still  doing 
pastoral  duty. 

21.  BERGER,  Rev.  August,  was  born  in  Germany  in  1822; 
ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  November  19,  1848;  was  assistant 
to  Rev.  P.  J.  Machebeuf,  at  Sandusky,  for  one  year;  left  the 
diocese  in  1849;  returned  in  185  1,  and  left  again  in  1852;  died 
at  Germantown,  111.,  October  1,  1865. 

22.  BERTHELET,  Rev.  Francis  A.,  was  born  in  Detroit, 
Michigan,  June  28,  1830.  He  was  educated  for  the  priesthood 
at  the  diocesan  seminary  of  St.  Hyacinthe,  Province  of  Quebec, 
where  he  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Prince,  November  14,  1853. 
Joined  the  Jesuits  in  1854  at  St.  Acheul,  France,  and  later,  for 
several  years,  was  professor  in  the  Jesuit  Colleges  at  Fordham, 
New  York,  and  Montreal.  In  last  mentioned  place  he  had 
charge,  for  two  years,  of  the  erection  of  the  present  beautiful 
church  of  the  Gesu.  August,  1868,  he  was  received  into  the 
diocese  of  Cleveland,  and  was  assistant  at  the  Cathedral  for  a 
few  months,  when  he  was  sent  to  Canton,  as  pastor  of  St. 
John's  congregation.  There  he  remained  till  March,  1876. 
Whilst  at  Canton  the  present  very  handsome  church  of  St. 
John's  was  built  under  his  direction.  After  nearly  three 
years'  illness  he  died,  October  31,  1878,  at  Detroit,  where  also 
his  remains  are  buried. 


23- 


BlRNBAUM,  Rev.  Irenaeus  (Franciscan),  a  native  of 
Germany,  was  ordained  March  27,  1868.  He  was  in  this 
diocese  from  July,  1877,  to  February,  1879,  as  one  of  the  pro- 
fessors at  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland.  Meanwhile  he  also 
attended  Parma  and  Independence,  from  August,  1877,  to 
January,  1878,  and  from  March,  1878,  to  February,  1879. 
Returned  to  Europe  in  1879. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  91 

24.  BlRNBAUM,  Rev.  John  Baptist,  (Sanguinist),  born  in 
Wuerttemberg,  May  8,  1823;  came  to  United  States  in  1864; 
was  ordained  July  10,  1867;  had  pastoral  charge  of  Big 
Springs;  was  assistant  at  Glandorf,  Thompson,  New  Riegel; 
was  pastor  of  Reed,  Seneca  county,  which  mission  he  attended 
from  Thompson,  where  he  died  May  28,  1882. 

25.  BODEN,  Rev.  Gregory  (Franciscan),  was  born  at  Gold- 
scheid,  Prussia,  in  1838;  ordained  April  3,  1868;  in  Franciscan 
Monaster)-,  Cleveland,  from  September,  1874,  to  February, 
1876.  with  charge  of  asylum  and  convent  chapels,  and  of  Inde- 
pendence, from  1875  to  1876. 

BOE,  Rev.  ,  was  stationed  at  Louisville,  as  assist- 
ant to  Rev.  L.  F.  D'Arcy,  from  September,  1859  to  January, 
1860,  when  he  returned  to  New  Orleans,  whence  he  came. 

27.  BOEHNE,  Rev.  George,  born  1799  in  Neuenkirchen 
<  Isnabrueck,  Germany,  was  ordained  in  1831.  He  came  to 
America  in  the  fall  of  1841,  .when  he  was  received  by  Bishop 
Purcell  and  sent  to  Glandorf  as  assistant  to  Rev.  William  John 
Horstmann,  whom  he  succeeded  as  pastor,  February,  1843. 
In  the  summer  of  1848  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Fort  Jen- 
nings, where  he  remained  till  his  death,  Sept.  20,  i860.  His 
remains   are    buried    at    Fort    Jennings.     Though    an    invalid 

epileptic  for  many  years  of  his  priesthood,  he  did  much  for 
religion.  Under  his  direction  churches  were  built  in  Glandorf 
and  Fort  Jennings,  the  second  in  each  place. 

28.  BORGESS,     Rev.    ()tto     II.,    was    born     in     Westphalia, 
many,     January      12,     1X05;    ordained     in     Mueiister.     18; 

ie  to  this  country  in  1832;  was  in  this  diocese  from  [862 
to    February,    [863,    as    pastor   of    St.    Clement's,     Navarre. 

turned  to  Europe  and  died  at  Steinerberg,  Switzerland, 
January  11.  18;  ■ 

RJADE,    R    \.    Julian,    a    native    of    the    diocese    ol 

flour,  France,  came  to  Cleveland  in  September,  1833,  ami 
was  ordained  by   Bishop   Rappe  a  tew  months  later.     From 


9 2  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

Fremont  he  attended  the  stations  of  La  Prairie  and  Toussaint, 
(1853-56).  His  next  charge  was  Providence,  where  he  resided 
from  1856  to  February,  1857,  meanwhile  attending  St.  Mary's 
Corners  for  a  few  months.  He  had  been  ailing  of  consump- 
tion for  some  time  and  was  ordered  to  Cleveland,  where  he 
died  in  the  Bishop's  house,  March  8th,  1857,  aged  about 
thirty.  His  remains  are  entombed  in  the  cathedral  base- 
ment.    He  was  a  very  worthy  priest. 

30.  BOWLES,  Rev.  Joseph  D.,  was  a  native  of  the  city  of 
Limerick,  Ireland,  where  he  was  born  April  12,  1829.  After 
finishing  the  collegiate  course  of  studies  in  his  native  city  he 
entered  All  Hallows',  Dublin,  where  he  studied  philosophy 
and  theology.  March  26,  1853,  he  was  ordained  priest  by 
Archbishop  Cullen,  in  the  cathedral  of  Dublin,  for  the  diocese 
of  Glasgow.  He  remained,  however,  but  a  few  months  in 
the  diocese  for  which  he  was  ordained.  December,  1853,  he 
was  received  by  Bishop  Bayley  into  the  diocese  of  Newark, 
N.  J.,  where  he  did  pastoral  work  till  January,  1868,  when  he 
became  affiliated  with  the  diocese  of  Chicago.  His  first 
appointment  there  was  as  assistant,  then  as  pastor  pro  tern., 
at  Immaculate  Conception  Church,  Chicago.  Later  he  was 
pastor  at  Hyde  Park  and  Monmouth,  May,  1869  to  July,  1872. 
He  was  then  received  into  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  and 
appointed  pastor  of  Clyde,  with  charge  of  Green  Spring  as  a 
mission,  July,  1872  to  January,  1875.  Bellevue  was  his  next 
appointment,  to  May,  1876.  He  was  then  transferred  to 
Ravenna, 'where  he  remained  till  April,  1883,  when  he  was 
assigned  the  pastorate  of  St.  Ann's,  Fremont.  This  charge 
he  held  till  his  death,  July  4,  1887.  He  was  identified  with 
the  Catholic  Total  Abstinence  Union  of  Ohio  as  its  president, 
and  was  for  a  number  of  years  the  treasurer  of  the  National 
Total  Abstinence  Union.  His  remains  are  buried  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

31.  BRAUN,  Rev.  Julian  von,  born  and  ordained  in  Ger- 
many, was  received  into  the  diocese  September,  185 1;  had 
charge  of  St.  Mary's  congregation,  Massillon,  till  1852,  mean- 
while attending  Bethlehem  (Navarre.)  He  died  of  cholera, 
August  2,  1852,  at  Massillon,  where  his  remains  repose. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  93 

32.  BREDEICK,  Rev.  John  Otto,  a  native  of  Westphalia, 
was  born  at  Verl,  January  23,  1789.  After  the  usual  collegi- 
ate and  theological  course  of  studies  he  was  ordained  at 
Osnabrueck,  Hanover,  in  1S22.  For  twenty-two  years  he 
held  various  ecclesiastical  positions  in  his  native  country, 
notably  that  of  a  member  of  the  Cathedral  Chapter  at  Osna- 
brueck. After  some  deliberation  he  resolved  to  devote  him- 
self to  the  American  mission.  For  this  purpose  he  came  to 
the  United  States  in  1844,  and  chose  Northern  Ohio  as  his 
future  field  of  labor.  Me  brought  with  him  a  few  sturdy 
Westphalians  and  some  means.  With  the  latter  he  pur- 
chased large  tracts  of  Government  land  in  "Section  Ten,"  on 
a  portion  of  which  he  established  the  present  flourishing  town 
of  Delphos.  There  also  he  formed  the  nucleus  of  St.  John's 
congregation,  building  its  first  church  and  pastoral  residence 
at  his  own  expense.  Much  of  the  prosperity  of  the  town  and 
congregation  must  be  credited  to  his  zeal,  prudence  and  gen- 
erosity. He  shared  privations  and  hardships  with  the  "set- 
tlers," and  at  his  death,  August  19,  1858,  had  the  satisfaction 
to  know  and  see  his  long,  laborious  work  crowned  with  suc- 
3S.  He  also  organized  and  attended  the  congregation  of 
Ottoville    (1848-58).      During    the    time    of  his   pastorate   at 

I  I  Iphos  and  (  )ttoville  he  not  only  refused  to  accept  the  salary 
to  which  he  was  entitled,  but  gave  largely  of  his  purse  to  sup- 
port the  churches  and  the  schools  built  and  established  by 
him.      lie    also    gave    to    each   of  these   places    valuable    real 

tte    for    the    same     purpose.      St.    John's    congregation. 

II  Ipho  .  is  indebted  to   father   Bredeick  for  the  finest  and 
largest  church  propery  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.       Thou 
long  dead  he   lives  in   the  memory  of  a  grateful  people  for 
whom,  to  this  day,  the  name  oi  "Father  Bredeick^'  is  a  house- 
hold \\  ord. 

13.     Brehm,  Rev.  Fidelis,  a  Swiss,  was  born  at   Butekon, 
'itnn  Aargelu.     He  was  received  into  the  diocese  ol  Cleve- 
land in  1870,  and  appointed  pastor  of  Landeck,  which  charge 
he  held  till  [878.     from  Landeck  he  also  attended  Spencer- 
ville    [871-77  .     During  his  absence  in  Europe  on  a  vacation, 


94  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

(1876),  the  pastoral  residence  at  Landeck  was  destroyed  by 
fire,  entailing  a  loss  of  his  library  and  personal  effects. 
In  1878  he  left  the  diocese  with  a  Catholic  colony,  for 
Arkansas.  His  project  there  failed  of  success,  but  Bishop 
Gilmour  declining  to  receive  him  back  he  returned  to 
Europe  in  1879,  where,  in  his  native  country,  he  is  pastor 
of  Stetten. 

34.  BREVMANN,  Rev.  Francis  (Jesuit),  was  born  at  Asche- 
berg,  diocese  of  Muenster,  Westphalia,  September  16,  1836; 
made  his  studies  at  the  Gymnasium  of  Muenster  and  with  the 
Jesuits;  was  ordained  for  them  by  Cardinal  Melchers,  Arch- 
bishop of  Cologne,  September  13,  1868.  He  came  to  this 
country  in  1869,  and  was  stationed  at  St.  Michael's,  Buffalo, 
till  1 87 1.  He  was  then  sent  to  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleve- 
land, as  Professor  of  Moral  Theology,  remaining  till  1872; 
was  recalled  to  Buffalo,  remaining  there  till  1875.  He  was 
next  on  the  mission  in  the  diocese  of  St.  Paul,  till  1880.  His 
next  appointment  was  as  assistant  at  St.  Mary's,  Toledo,  till 
July,  1885,  when  he  was  transferred  to  Buffalo,  where  he 
resides  at  present. 

35.  BRENNAN,  Rev.  George  H.,  was  born  in  County  Ros- 
common, Ireland.  He  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  in 
April,  1852.  His  first  charge  was  Doylestown  and  Wooster, 
May,  1852,  to  January,  1854.  He  was  then  appointed  resi- 
dent pastor  of  Wooster,  remaining  till  1856.  From  Wooster 
he  attended  Ashland,  Crestline  and  Mansfield  as  missions.  In 
1856  he  left  the  diocese  and  was  successively  connected  with 
the  dioceses  of  Milwaukee,  Dubuque  and  Boston.  He  was 
next  affiliated  with  the  diocese  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  from  1870 
till  1874,  when  he  returned  to  Ireland.  He  now  resides  at 
Dublin. 

36.  BROWN,  Rev.  Michael  Bernard,  was  born  May  20, 
1840,  at  Beckmantown,  Clinton  county,  New  York;  made  his 
ecclesiastical  studies  at  the  Seminary  in  Cleveland,  and  in 
Notre     Dame    University,    Indiana.     He     was    ordained    by 


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Bishop  Liters  for  the  Society  of  the  Holy  Cross,  Notre  Dame, 
Indiana,  June  10,  1867.  He  remained  with  the  Society  till 
August,  1876.  From  that  time,  till  August,  [883,  he  was  on 
the  mission  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  viz.:  assistant  at  St. 
Columba's,  Youngstown,  till  July.  1877;  pastor  of  Crestline 
to  March,  1881;  again  assistant  at  St.  Columba's,  Youngs- 
town, till  December,  1881.  He  then  had  temporary  charge  of 
St.  Joseph's,  Youngstown,  till  March,  1S82.  His  next  appoint- 
ment was  Wellsville,  where  he  remained  till  August,  [883. 
Between  [883  and  [888  he  was  on  the  mission  in  the  dioceses 
of  Mobile  and  Cincinnati,  in  the  former,  however,  but  a  short 
time.  His  last  appointment  was  as  pastor  of  St.  Paris,  Cham- 
paign county,  Ohio,  where  he  died  suddenly,  September  19, 
[888.  1  le  was  a  facile  writer,  a  good  pulpit  orator,  and  a  man 
of  scholarly  attainments. 

37.      BROWN,    Rev.  Patrick   Henry,  was  born  at  Sherring- 
ton. Canada,  December  21,   1834;   ordained  by  Bishop   Rappe, 
June  30,  1861  ;  appointed  pastor  of  Hudson  the  following  month, 
attending  as  missions  Ravenna  and  Kent.      In -the  latter  place 
he   built   the    present    church.      In    1  862    he   was   stationed    at 
Ravenna,    where  he   remained  till   August,    1872,    meanwhile 
[862-67    attending  Rent.      His  next  and  last  charge-  was  St. 
Columba's,    Youngstown.     lb'    resigned  this  pastorate  July. 
[877,    owing  to    protracted   illness;    was  brought  to   Charity 
Hospital,  Cleveland,   where,  after  nearly  a  year  of  suffering, 
In-  died  September  2'',  [878. 

j8.  BRUEGGEMANN,  Rev.  Eustao  Franciscan  .  was  born 
at  W'erl,  Westphalia,  Prussia,  April  2.  1830;  ordained  March 
17,  [866;  in  th<-  United  States  since  October,  [869;  was  in 
this  diocese  a-  Superior  of  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland, 
from  [879  to  [882,  attending  Independence  and  Parma  as 
missions  from  January  to  July,  [881.  I>  at  present  in  the 
di  <<\  St.  I  ,ouis,  Mo. 

p.i  1  wi  i:.  \'er>   Rev.  Francis  Salesius    Sanguinis!  . 
was  born  in  Switzerland,  January   10.   [795,  a\m\  ordained  in 


96  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

March,  1819.  He  was  the  founder  and  Provincial  of  the  San- 
guinist  Society  in  America,  and  with  a  band  of  faithful  co-la- 
borers took  charge  of  Peru  and  surrounding  missions,  January, 
1844.  He  established  a  Sanguinist  Convent  at  Thompson 
(1844),  one  at  New  Riegel  (1845),  and  in  1848  a  third  one  of 
the  same  Society  at  Glandorf,  all  of  which  have  done  and  are 
doing  much  good  for  religion.  He  and  his  faithful  followers 
deserve  well  of  the  Catholics  of  this  diocese.  Their  work 
has  been  unostentatious,  but  none  the  less  successful  and 
lasting  He  was  in  Northern  Ohio  till  1858,  when  he  went 
to  Europe.  He  died  at  Schellenberg,  in  the  Principality  of 
Lichtenstein,  Austria,  December  29,  1859.  Father  Brunner 
was  a  saintly  priest  and  a  wise  and  prudent  superior. 

40.  BUCHHOLZ,  Rev.  Lucius  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Dorsten,  Prussia,  diocese  of  Muenster,  April  3,  1838;  ordained 
August  16,  1868;  at  Cleveland   Monastery  from  1869  to  187 1. 

41.  BYRNE,  Rev.  Michael  Ambrose,  was  born,  1821,  near 
Stranorlar,  County  Donegal,  Ireland;  came  to  the  United 
States  at  the  age  of  17.  A  few  years  later  he  entered  Mt.  St. 
Mary's  College,  Emmittsburg,  Md.,  and  finished  his  studies  at 
Cincinnati  where  he  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Purcell,  Novem- 
ber 1,  1845.  January,  1846,  he  was  sent  to  Cleveland  as 
assistant  to  Rev.  P.  McLaughlin.  From  Cleveland  he  also 
attended  Avon,  Painesville  and  South  Thompson.  In  1847 
he  returned  to  Cincinnati  and  was  appointed  first  resident 
pastor  of  All  Saints'  Church,  Fulton,  then  a  suburb  of  Cin- 
cinnati, where  he  died  of  cholera,  August  22,  1850. 

42.  BYRNE,  Rev.  Robert  Alexis,  brother  to  Rev.  Michael 
A.  Byrne,  was  born  near  Stranorlar,  County  Donegal,  Ireland, 
in  1828;  made  part  of  his  studies  for  the  ministry  in  London- 
derry, Emmittsburg  and  Fordham.  He  was  ordained  by 
Archbishop  Hughes  in  1856.  Remained  in  the  diocese  of  New 
York  till  1873,  when  he  was  received  by  Bishop  Gilmour 
and  sent  to  Toledo.  There  he  organized  the  present  Good 
Shepherd    congregation,  whose    church    was  built   under  his 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  97 

direction.  His  health  failing  he  resigned  this  charge  March 
20,  [875,  and  returned  to  his  home  in  Ireland,  where  he  died 
August  23d,  of  the  same  year. 

43.     CAMPION,   V.  Rev.  Augustine  S.,  was  born  at  Henin- 
Lietard,    pas-de-Calais,    France,    February    18,    181 1.     After 
completing   his  studies  for  the  ministry  at   the  seminary  of 
Arras,    France,     he    was    ordained    by    Bishop    d'Auvergne, 
December    18,    1834.      He    did    pastoral    duty    in    his    native 
country   till    1848,   when  he  came  to  Cleveland,  November  of 
same  year.     On   his  arrival  Bishop   Rappe  sent  him  to  Fre- 
mont as  assistant  to  Rev.  L.  Nightingale,  pastor  of  St.  Ann's. 
From  Fremont  he  attended  a  number  of  smaller  missions  in 
the  vicinity,  viz.:   Toussaint,  LaPrairie,  etc.     In    1849  he  was 
sent  to  Wooster,  whence  he  also  attended  French  Settlement 
and   Doylestown.     In   the  last  mentioned  place  he  built   the 
church,  since  replaced  by    the  present    handsome  structure. 
In    185  1  he   was  given   pastoral  charge  of  St.  John's,  Canton, 
and     attended     Canal     Fulton     and     Massillon    as     missions. 
November,    1853,   he   was  called   to  the  cathedral   and    made 
Vicar-general.      His  next  and  last  appointment  in  this  diocese 
was  the  pastorate  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales',  Toledo,  November, 
1854,    to   May,    1856.      He   then   left   the    diocese  to  join    the 
Sulpitians  at  Montreal,  where  he  remained  till  his  death,  June 
10,  [886.       lie  had  been   ill  for  nearly  two  years  previous  to 
his  demise,  and  was  unable  to  do  duty.    He  bore  his  sufferings 
with    Christian    patience    till    his     Master's    summons    came. 
While  pastor  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales',  Toledo,  he  arranged  for 
tin   opening  of  an  orphan  asylum  in  that  city.     At  his  earnest 
request  tin-  Mother  Superioress  of  the  Grey  Nuns  at  Montreal 
sent    four   of  these    Sisters,   October,    1855,   to   open  and   take 
charge  of  the  asylum.     Before  Father  Campion  left,  in    [856, 
he   had    the    satisfaction    of  seeing  tin-  good  work   of  these 
Sisters  full)-  and  practically    appreciated  by  the   citizens  oi 
roledo.     Father  Campion  was  a  most  devoted  priest,  charit- 
able, kind-hearted  and  full  of  zeal  for  religion. 

1 1.     Capedj  R,  Rev.  Peter  Anthony   Sanguinist  i,  was  bom 
at  Lumbrein,  Canton  Graubuendten,  Switzerland,  January   1. 


98  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF   THE 

1 8 17.  After  completing  his  studies  at  Loewenburg,  Switzer- 
land, he  was  ordained  at  Feldkirch,  Austria,  by  Bishop 
George  Pruenster,  May  11,  1843.  He  came  to  this  country 
in  1844,  with  the  first  band  of  Sanguinist  Fathers.  From 
1844  to  1888  he  was  stationed  in  and  outside  the  diocese  of 
Cleveland,  in  places  committed  to  the  Sanguinists;  he  shared 
the  hardships  of  the  pioneer  priest.  He  was  in  the  diocese 
of  Cleveland  from  1844-57;  1865-70;  1872-80;  1884,  to  May, 
1886,  with  Peru,  Thompson,  New  Riegel,  Tiffin,  Liverpool  and 
Glandorf  as  the  several  fields  of  his  pastoral  work.  In  Novem- 
ber, 1 887,  he  was  again  sent  by  his  superior  to  Thompson, where 
he  remained  till  his  sudden  death,  October  2,  1888.  During 
the  last  few  years  of  his  life  he  did  no  pastoral  work,  owing 
to  physical  inability,  his  hearing  and  memory  having  been 
seriously  impaired.  "  Father  Peter  Anthony,"  as  he  was  famil- 
iarly called,  was  truly  a  priest — a  man  without  guile. 
Although  neither  a  brilliant  scholar  nor  eloquent  preacher 
his  daily  life  was  an  edifying  sermon  and  a  practical  illustra- 
tion of  humility  and  simplicity.  Full  of  sunshine  in  his 
character  he  won  all  who  had  any  intercourse  with  him,  by 
his  kindly  words,  genial  humor  and  sparkling  wit. 

45  CARABIN,  Rev.  A.,  was  born  in  France,  1807,  and 
there  educated;  ordained  by  Bishop  Fenwick  in  1831;  received 
into  this  diocese,  1847,  after  having  been  on  the  missions  of 
Upper  Michigan  for  a  number  of  years.  Bishop  Rappe  sent 
him  to  Peru,  where  he  remained  from  December,  1847,  to 
September,  1850.  His  next  charge  was  St.  Ann's,  Fremont, 
till  1852,  when  he  was  stricken  with  paralysis.  He  rallied  for 
a  short  time  sufficiently  to  do  pastoral  duty  at  St.  Peter's, 
Canton,  February  to  July,  1853;  was  then  obliged  to  give  up 
all  work,  and  for  twenty  years  was  a  patient  sufferer.  The  Sis- 
ters of  Charity  of  St.  Vincent's  Asylum,  Cleveland,  had  charge 
of  him  for  many  years,  and  he  died  there  August  1,  1873. 
His  remains  are  interred  in   St.  John's  Cemetery,  Cleveland. 

46.  CARAHER,  Rev.  Bernard,  born,  educated  and  ordained 
in  Ireland,  was  received  by  Bishop  Rappe,  November,  1853. 
Till  August,  1854,  he  was  connected  with  the  cathedral.     He 


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was  next  appointed  pastor  of  St.  John's,  Canton,  residing 
there  from  December,  1854,  till  his  death,  on  Good  Friday, 
1857.  From  Canton  he  also  attended,  monthly,  St.  Joseph's, 
Massillon. 

47.     CARON,  Very  Rev.  Alexis,  was  born  at  Bilquem,  near 
St.  ( )mer,  diocese  of  Arras,  France,  December  8,  1802.     After 
finishing  the  collegiate  course  at  the  "  petit  seminaire  "  of  St. 
( )mer,   he  began   to  study  theology  under  the  direction    of  a 
venerable  priest,  Rev.  M.  Delahage,   who,  on   his  return   from 
exile,   held   a  professor's  chair  in  this  preparatory  seminary. 
On  leaving  St.  Omer,  Father  Caron  entered  the  society  of  the 
"Missionnaires  de  France,"  (known  now  as  that  of  the  "Fath- 
ers of  Mercy/'J   the   Superior   of  which    was    the    celebrated 
Abbe    Ranyan.        In    this    Society    Father    Caron    was    raised 
t<>  the  dignity  of  the  priesthood  in  the  year  1827.     Meanwhile 
the  revolution  of  1840  broke  out,  and  the  house  of  these  good 
Fathers,    like  many  other  religious   institutions,  was  pillaged 
and   plundered.     The   inmates   were   constrained  to  abandon 
their  dwelling  in   order  to  avoid  death.      Father  Caron  made 
his  escape  in  the  disguise  of  a  peasant.      Shortly  after  this 
event    the    Bishop    of    Arras,    Mgr.   de   la  Tour    d'Auvcrgne, 
appointed    him   assistant    priest    at    Flechin,   a    small    parish 
in    the    Canton    of   Fauquemberg.      Here,    as    elsewhere,    his 
pastoral  zeal,  and    his  charity   toward  the   poor  endeared   him 
to  all  his  parishioners.      From  Flechin  Father  Caron  was  sent 
to  W'imille   as  second   assistant  to    Rev.  Father    Klin.      In  the 
fall   of   [848  an   ever  all-ruling    Providence  Wrought   about    for 
him  the  possibility  of  realizing  a  desire  which   he  had  long 
formed      that  of  devoting  himself  to  the    American  missions. 
In  company  with  Father  Campion  he  offered  his  priestly  ser- 
\  io     to  Bishop  Rappe  and  was  gladly  welcomed  and  received 
l>:.  him.      He  arrived  in  Cleveland  November,  1848,  and  soon 
.it'ter  was  appointed  successor  to    Father  de  Goesbriand,  as 
superior  of   the   diocesan    seminar}-.     This   position  he   held 
till  June,   [856,  when   Bishop  Rappe  -ranted  him  a  six  mouths' 
leave  <>l  absence  to  visil  his  native  bra  nee.    lb-  returned  in  Jan- 
uary,  [857,  when   In-  was  appointed   pastor  of  Holy   Angels' 


ioo  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF   THE 

Church,  Sandusky,  where  he  remained  till  May,  1 86 1 .  He  then 
went  to  Painesville  to  reside  with  Father  Coquerelle,  and, 
although  assigned  no  regular  duty  from  the  time  he  left  San- 
dusky, because  of  his  impaired  health,  yet  he  volunteered  to 
attend  Ashtabula  (1861-62).  Repeatedly,  during  Bishop 
Rappe's  visits  to  Europe,  1862,  1867,  and  from  November,  1869 
to  August,  1870,  Father  Caron  held  the  responsible  position 
of  Administrator  of  the  diocese.  He  was  also  one  of  Bishop 
Rappe's  Vicars  General  for  about  twenty  years.  From  1869 
till  his  death,  December  21,  1873,  he  resided  at  Charity  Hos- 
pital, where,  as  long  as  his  illness  (cancer)  permitted,  he 
acted  as  chaplain.  His  remains  are  buried  in  St.  John's  cem- 
etery, Cleveland,  a  very  handsome  monument,  erected  by  his 
clerical  friends,  marking  his  grave,  as  well  as  that  of  Very 
Rev.  James  Conlan  and  Rev.  John  Dillon,  both  of  whose 
remains  are  inclosed  in  the  same  coffin. 

48.  Carroll,  Rev.  Thomas,  was  born  at  Ardagh,  Ire- 
land, August  17,  1833;  educated  at  Notre  Dame,  Ind.,  and 
ordained  by  Bishop  Luers  for  the  Holy  Cross  Society  in  1858. 
He  left  the  Society,  1863,  on  account  of  ill  health.  January, 
1864,  he  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  and 
appointed  assistant  at  the  cathedral.  He  remained  till  Octo- 
ber, 1867,  when  he  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Erie 
where  he  has  been  since.  He  is  now  stationed  at  Oil  City, 
Penn. 

49.  CEBULLA,  Rev.  Sebastian  (Franciscan),  was  born 
March  10,  1838,  in  Silesia;  ordained  March  12,  1869;  in  the 
Franciscan  Monastery  of  Cleveland  from  1883  to  1884.  He 
is  now  stationed  in  the  diocese  of  Alton. 

50.  OiERRlER,  Rev.  Leo  (Basilian),  was  born  at  Dundas, 
Ont.,  Canada,  October  28,  1834;  educated  at  St.  Michael's 
College,  Toronto,  and  there  ordained  by  Bishop  Lynch, 
March  25,  1864;  was  in  this  diocese  from  1872  to  1873  as 
professor  at  St.  Louis'  College,  Louisville,  Ohio;  is  now  pro- 
fessor at  St.  Michael's  College,  Toronto. 


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51.  CHRISTOPHORY,  Rev.  Jacob,  a  native  of  Luxemburg, 
was  born  at  Merl,  April  26,  1848;  was  trained  for  the  priest- 
hood in  the  city  of  Luxemberg,  and  for  five  years  in  the 
diocesan  seminary  at  Cleveland,  where  he  was  ordained  by 
Bishop  Gilmour,  June  15,  1878.  North  Ridge,  with  the 
mission  of  Mud  Creek,  was  his  first  appointment,  July,  1878, 
to  June,  18S1.  From  latter  date  till  September,  1887,  he  was 
resident  pastor  of  St.  Patrick's  settlement,  with  Liberty  as  a 
mission.  From  this  position  he  was  removed  to  Medina, 
with  charge  of  the  missions  of  French  settlement,  Sterling 
and  Wadsworth,  but  remained  only  four  months.  His  last 
appointment  in  this  diocese  was  as  assistant  at  St.  Peter's, 
Cleveland,  till  July,  1888,  when  he  was  received  into  the 
diocese  of  Leavenworth,  where  he  now   is. 

52.  CLEMENT,  Rev.  Julius,  a  native  of  France,  was 
ordained  there  about  1850.  He  was  received  into  this  dio- 
cese  Jul}-,  1864,  and  appointed  one  of  the  professors  at  St. 
Marx's  Seminary,  Cleveland,  and  in  1866,  Superior  of  the 
College  at  Louisville,  O.,  where  he  remained  till  July,  1867. 
He  was  then  received  into  the  diocese  of  Vincennes,  where 
he  died,  as  pastor  at  Green  Castle,  Ind.,  in  October,  1871. 

53.  COADY,  Rev.  Peter,  was  born  in  Bally-Callan,  County 
Kilkenny,  Ireland;  came  to  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  from 
Canada,  December,  1870;  was  at  St.  Mary's  Seminary  for  a 
few  months,  when  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  South  Thomp- 
son, with  charge  of  Jefferson  as  a  mission.  He  remained 
there  from  March,  187 1,  till  some  time  in  1872,  when  he  left 
the  diocese. 

54.  Collins,  V.  Rev.  Edward  Timothy,  a  native  of  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa.,  was  born  February  26,  1802;  studied  for  the 
ministry  at  Mt.  St.  Mary's  Seminar)-,  Emmittsburg,  Md.;  was 
ordained  b)  Bishop  Kenrick,  July  1,  [832,  for  the  diocese  of 
Cincinnati,  where  lie  was  stationed  at  the  cathedral.  May, 
[838,  Bishop  Pureed  appointed  him  a-  one  of  his  Vicars  Gen? 
eral.      between  [837  and  [839  he  visited  the  missions  along 


102  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

the  Miami  Canal,  from  Cincinnati  as  far  up  as  Toledo,  making 
the  entire  journey  on  horseback.  He  also  attended  missions 
in  Columbiana  county  (Dungannon,  etc.,)  about  1834.  Father 
Collins  was  a  scholarly  man  and  a  keen  judge  of  books,  of 
which  he  had  a  very  fine  and  large  collection,  covering  every 
branch  of  ecclesiastical  lore.  He  gave  his  library  to  Mt.  St. 
Mary's  Seminary.  He  was  a  most  worthy  priest,  genial  and 
companionable,  without  ever  forgetting  what  he  owed  his 
priestly  dignity.      He  died  at  Cincinnati,  August  26,  1865. 

55.  CONLAN,  Very  Rev.  James,  was  born  at  Mohill, 
County  Leitrim,  Ireland,  August  22,  1801;  made  his  course 
of  studies  in  Ireland,  and  at  Cincinnati,  where  he  was  ordained 
by  Bishop  Purcell,  September  20,  1834.  His  first  appoint- 
ment was  as  assistant  to  the  Rev.  James  Reid,  pastor  of  St. 
Martin's,  Brown  county,  Ohio.  Here  he  remained  for  a  few 
months,  when  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Steubenville,  whence 
he  attended  the  stations  and  missions  located  in  the  counties 
of  Columbiana,  Mahoning,  Carroll,  Jefferson  and  the  eastern 
portion  of  Stark.  He  resided  at  Steubenville  from  1834  to 
1842,  and  then  removed  to  St.  Paul's,  near  the  present  village 
of  Dungannon,  Columbiana  county.  A  journey  of  fifty  or  a 
hundred  miles  to  say  Mass  or  attend  a  sick-call  was  among 
the  ordinary  occurrences  of  his  missionary  life.  Neither  dis- 
tance nor  hardship  prevented  him  from  cheerfully  responding 
to  any  demand  made  on  him  for  priestly  aid.  October,  1849, 
he  was  called  to  Cleveland,  and  for  four  years  lived  with  the 
Bishop,  attending  the  cathedral.  November,  1853,  he  was 
appointed  first  resident  pastor  of  St.  Patrick's,  Cleveland,  his 
last  charge.  For  many  years  he  also  held  the  position  of 
Vicar-general  under  Bishop  Rappe,  till  the  latter's  resigna- 
tion. In  i860,  during  the  Bishop's  absence  in  Europe,  he 
was  Administrator  of  the  diocese.  Under  his  direction  old 
St.  Patrick's  was  enlarged  and  completed,  two  schools  were 
built,  and  the  present  handsome  church  begun  and  brought 
under  roof.  He  died  at  Charity  Hospital,  March  5,  1875,  full 
of  years  and  merits.  He  was  one  of  God's  noblemen,  a  true 
priest,    loved    and    respected  by    all  who    knew    him.      His 


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remains  rest  in  St.  John's  Cemetery,  Cleveland,  with  those  of 
the  Rev.  John  Dillon,  with  whom  he  had  been  ordained. 

56.  CONLAN,  Rev.  James  V.,  was  born  at  Mohill,  County 
Leitrim,  Ireland,  September  27,  1820;  made  his  ecclesiastical 
studies  at  Cincinnati;  was  ordained  in  (old)  St.  Vincent's 
church,  Akron,  Ohio,  by  Bishop  Purcell,  September  5,  1847, 
five  weeks  before  the  consecration  of  Father  Rappe  as  first 
Bishop  of  Cleveland,  and  was  appointed  assistant  to  Rev. 
James  Conlan  at  Dungannon.  "Father  Vincent,"  as  he  was 
called,  to  distinguish  him  from  his  cousin,  Very  Rev.  James 
Conlan,  was  next  placed  in  charge  of  St.  John's  church, 
Canton,  August,  1848;  remained  there  till  January,  185 1, 
when  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Holy  Angels',  Sandusky. 
December,  1855,  he  was  assigned  as  assistant  to  Rev.  James 
Conlan,  at  St.  Patrick's,  Cleveland,  where  they  zealously  and 
successfully  labored  together  till  March  5,  1875,  when  the  latter 
died.  Father  Vincent  succeeded  as  pastor  of  St.  Patrick's. 
August,  i<S7~,  he  resigned  this  charge  and  took  the  pastorate 
of  St.  Ann's,  Fremont.  There  he  remained  till  January  15, 
[883.  Owing  to  protracted  illness,  which  prevented  him  from 
doing  pastoral  duty,  he  resigned  and  went  to  Charity  Hos- 
pital, Cleveland,  where  he  died  March  15,  1883.  His  remains 
are  buried  in  St.  John's  Cemetery,  Cleveland.  He  was  a  gen- 
ial, kind-hearted  priest. 

57.  CON]  \\.  Rev.  Thomas  J.,  was  born  in  Summitville, 
<  olumbiana  count}-,  Ohio,  February  6,  1S46;  commenced  his 
ecclesiastical  studies  in  St.  John's  college,  formerly  existing 
in  Cleveland;  finished  them  in  St.  Marx's  Seminar)',  Lake 
street;  was  ..nl, lined  by  Bishop  Rappe,  March  7,  [869.  For 
a  while  he  was  a  professor  in  the  diocesan  seminary;  then 
(1870J  he  was  transferred  to  the  cathedral  as  assistant.  In 
1873  he  accepted  the  position  of  Secretary  to  Bishop  Gilmour, 

.  but  from  [874,  owing  to  ill  health,  was  unable  to  render  much 
service  either  in  this  capacity,  or  while  having  charge  at  the 
cathedral.  He  made  every  effort  to  recuperate  hi--  fast  wan- 
in:.:  strength,  traveling  extensively  for  his  health,  but  all  to  no 


104  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

effect.  For  five  years  he  was  a  patient  sufferer  from  consump- 
tion, till  finally  death  relieved  him  August  20,  1879.  He  died 
at  his  father's  residence  in  Cleveland.  His  remains  are  buried 
in  St.  John's  Cemetery,  Cleveland,  near  those  of  his  uncle, 
the  Very  Rev.  James  Conlan.  He  was  of  a  kind,  gentle 
nature,  gifted,  and  thoroughly  a  priest.  "Father  Tom," 
though  no  more  among  the  living,  lives  in  the  memory  of 
those  with  whom  and  for  whom  he  labored,  as  one  of  God's 
chosen  ministers,  and  as  a  model  ecclesiastic. 

58.  COPPINGER,  Rev.  Thomas  J.  J.,  was  born  and  edu- 
cated in  Ireland  (no  record  of  date  or  place  of  birth).  As  a 
young  man  he  was  in  the  British  army;  then  came  to  the 
United  States,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Purcell  at  Cin- 
cinnati, October  21,  1854,  and  placed  as  assistant  at  the 
cathedral.  Left  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati  and  came  to  Cleve- 
land September,  1862,  and  remained  as  assistant  at  cathedral 
till  July,  1863;  then  enlisted  in  the  army,  was  wounded  in  the 
battle  of  Winchester,  and  then  discharged;  returned  to 
Ireland,  where  he  remained  but  a  short  time;  then  went  to 
England,  and  there  entered  a  Cistercian  Monastery.  A  few 
months  later  he  again  returned  to  his  native  diocese,  Cloyne, 
where,  after  doing  pastoral  duty  for  a  short  while,  he  died 
about  1874. 

59.  Coquerelle,  Rev.  Charles  M.,  born  at  Etaples, 
diocese  of  Arras,  France,  May  31,  1804,  was  ordained  in  1833; 
came  to  this  diocese  August,  1850;  was  appointed  resident 
pastor  of  Port  Clinton  and  thence  attended  Marblehead,  Tous- 
saint  and  La  Prairie.  After  nearly  two  years  of  laborious 
mission  work  there,  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Painesville  in 
the  latter  part  of  1852.  There  he  remained  till  1869,  when  he' 
resigned  his  pastorate  on  account  of  deafness  and  old  age. 
Shortly  after  his  resignation  he  returned  to  France  where  he 
died  September  5th,  1880. 

60.  COUILLARD,  Rev.  J.  B.,  born  and  ordained  in  Can- 
ada, was  received  into  the  diocese  by  Bishop  Rappe  in  1869; 
assistant  to  Rev.   F.  M.   Boff  at  St.  Francis'  Church,  Toledo, 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  105 

October,  1869,  till  February,  1871,  when  he  left  this  diocese. 
He  was  then  received  into  the  diocese  of  Springfield,  where 
he  died  in  1874. 

61.  CULLEN,  Rev.  James,  was  born  in  Wexford,  Ireland, 
June  29,  18 14.  Made  his  collegiate  studies  in  Ireland; 
entered  Mt.  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Kmmittsburg,  Md.,  and 
there  studied  philosophy  and  theology,  meanwhile,  (for  three 
years,)  teaching  the  collegians  the  higher  mathematics,  in 
which  branch  he  was  quite  proficient.  He  was  ordained  for  the 
diocese  of  Philadelphia  by  Bishop  Kenrick,  July  19,  1847.  He 
remained  in  that  diocese,  holding  various  positions,  till  1870, 
when  he  went  to  Albany.  Two  years  later  he  was  received  by 
Bishop  Gilmour,  who  appointed  him  resident  pastor  of  East 
Liverpool,  with  charge  of  Wellsville  as  a  mission.  In  1875  he 
was  transferred  to  Vermillion,  and  in  1878  to  Olmsted.  July, 
1882,  he  was  appointed  assistant  at  Sts.  Philip  and  James' 
Church,  Canal  Fulton.  Six  months  later  he  was  obliged  to 
give  up  all  pastoral  work  owing  to  ill  health  and  failing 
memory,  the  latter  often  a  blank  at  times.  Since  January, 
[883,  he  has  been  on  the  retired  list,  making  his  residence 
chiefly  at  St.  Bridget's,  Cleveland,  saying  Mass  when  able. 
Last  September  he  went  to  Chicago  to  reside  for  a  time  with 
his  relatives.  November  10,  1888,  while  walking  along  the 
Grand  Trunk  railroad  in  Chicago,  he  was  run  over  by  an 
engine  and  seriously  injured.  At  present  writing  (Nov.  27) 
he  is  in  Mercy  Hospital  of  that  city,  with  good  hope  for  his 
recovery. 

CZAKERT,  Rev.  Peter  (Redemptorist),  was  born 
December  12,  [808,  in  Bohemia.  In  his  24th  year  he  joined 
tin-  Redemptorists;  was  ordained  January  12,  [834,  and  soon 
after  came  to  the  United  States,  lie  was  sent  to  Northern 
Ohio  Peru,  Huron  county)  in  [835  .md  remained  till  [839, 
when  he  returned  to  Baltimore.  In  [844  he  was  appointed 
Provincial  of  the  Redemptorists  in  this  country,  retaining 
this  office  till  1N47,  wh<n  In-  was  scut  to  Lafayette  City, 
near  New  Orleans,  where  he  died  September  2.  [848.  Il>- 
was  a  model  priest  and  full  of  missionary  zeal. 


106  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

63.  DALEY,  Rev.  Cornelius,  born  in  County  Cork,  Ireland, 
was  ordained  by  Bishop  Purcell  March  2,  1844.  For  nearly 
a  year  he  labored  on  the  mission  in  Southern  Ohio.  He  was 
then  appointed  first  resident  pastor  of  St.  Vincent's,  Akron, 
(1 845-46 K  Meanwhile  he  also  attended  Doylestown,  whither 
he  was  transferred  February,  1846.  He  also  attended  Youngs- 
town  (1845).  When  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  was  organized 
(October,  1847),  he  affiliated  with  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati, 
where  he  remained  till  his  death,  at  Fayetteville,  Brown 
county,  January  24,  1876. 

64.  D'ARCY,  Rev.  Louis  Florence,  was  born  and  educated 
in  France  (diocese  of  Arras);  came  to  Cleveland  in  August, 
1850;  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe  April  2,  185 1;  was 
assistant  at  the  cathedral  till  September,  185  1,  when  he  was 
appointed  pastor  of  Louisville,  remaining  till  May,  1854.  He 
then  went  to  France  for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  returning 
in  1856.  He  again  had  charge  of  Louisville  congregation,  till 
1 86 1,  when  he  left  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  Whilst  at 
Louisville  he  also  attended  Strasburg  and  there  built  the 
present  (second)  church.  Between  1861  and  1866  he  labored 
in  the  dioceses  of  Mobile  and  Cincinnati,  and  for  a  short 
time  he  was  also  at  Notre  Dame,  Ind.  In  1866  he  was  again 
received  into  this  diocese  and  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Ann's, 
Fremont,  but  remained  in  charge  only  till  July,  1867,  when 
he  returned  to  France,  where  he  died  a  few  years  later. 

65.  Davy,  Rev.  — ,  for  a  few  months  pastor  of  Elmore 
(1872);  meanwhile  attended  the  missions  of  Genoa  and  Wood- 
ville.     No  other  record  of  him. 

66.  DEGOESBRIAND,  Rt.  Rev.  Louis  M.  J.,  the  present 
Bishop  of  Burlington,  was  born  at  St.  Urbain,  Finistere, 
France,  August  4,  18 16;  made  his  ecclesiastical  studies  at 
Point-Croix,  Guimper,  in  his  native  diocese,  and  at  St.  Sul- 
pice,  Paris.  He  was  ordained  at  Paris,  July  13,  1840,  by 
Bishop  Rosati,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  then  in  Europe  on  a  visit. 
He  came  to  Ohio  in  1840  and  was  appointed  successor  to  Rev. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  107 

M.  Wuerz,  as  the  second  resident  pastor  of  Louisville,  where 
he  remained  from  October,  1840  to  January,  1846.  He  was 
then  sent  as  assistant  to  Father  Rappe,  who  had  charge  of 
Toledo  and  the  "  Maumee "  section  of  North-western  .Ohio, 
and  with  whom  he  shared  the  hardships  and  privations  of  that 
extensive  and  uninviting  mission.  There  he  remained  till 
January,  1848,  when  Bishop  Rappe  appointed  him  Vicar 
General,  with  residence  at  Cleveland.  This  office  he  held  till 
he  was  consecrated  first  Bishop  of  Burlington,  October  30, 
1853,  which  responsible  and  important  dignity  he  still  holds, 
and  with  eminent  success. 

67.  DEI .r.AERE,  Rev.  Polydore  Henry,  born  at  Ingoy- 
ghem,  West  Flanders,  Belgium,  December  2  1,  1838;  made 
his  studies  for  the  ministry  in  Flanders  and  at  the  University 
of  Louvain;  was  ordained  by  Cardinal  Stercks,  Archbishop 
of  Mechlin,  May  21,  1864;  was  in  the  diocese  of  Detroit  for 
some  years;  received  by  Bishop  Gilmour,  ad  interim,  Febru- 
arv,  1875,  and  appointed  pastor  of  Archbold  and  missions. 
April,  1877,  he  was  sent  to  Antwerp  with  charge  of  a  number 
of  missions.  April,  1879,  he  left  the  diocese,  and  was  received 
into  the  diocese  of  Peoria,  where  he  now  is. 

68.  I'll  in:/,  Rev.  Francis  X.  (Jesuit),  was  born  at  Aix-la- 
Chapelle,  diocese  of  Cologne,  October  6,  1837;  ordained 
August  24,  1869;  in  this  country  since  September,  1869;  was 
assistant  at  St.  Mary's,  Toledo,  from  1870  to  1871,  and  again 
from    1873   to    1N74.      He   is  now  in  the  diocese  of  La  Crosse. 

69.  1)1  RAYMACHER,  Rev.  Vincent  ( Dominican  ),  a  native 
of  Belgium,  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Fenwick  in  1822.  He 
was  stationed  at  Cincinnati  for  a  short  time  and  then  sent  to 
tin-  Dominican  Convent  near  Somerset,  Perry  county,  whence 

he  attended  the  stations  and  missions  in  Stark  and  Colum- 
biana   counties    between     [823    and     [835.       He     was    resilient 

pastor  of  St.  John's,  Canton,  '111^835.  Returned  to  Belgiufti 
where  he  died  in  [870,  aged  72  years. 

70.  Dli  KMANN,  Rev.  Bernard  Sanguinist  .  was  born  at 
Minster,  Auglaize  county,  0.,  in  [839; educated  at  Carthagena, 


io8  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

Mercer  county,  Ohio;  ordained  at  Minster,  Ohio,  by  Bishop 
Rosecrans,  for  the  Sanguinists,  August  17,  1862;  was  pastor 
at  Glandorf  from  April,  1874  to  May,  1881,  where  he  also 
directed  the  building  of  the  present  beautiful  church.  In 
1 88 1  he  was  sent  by  his  Superior  to  California;  is  now  pastor 
of  Sacred  Heart.  Church,  Sedalia,  Mo. 

71.  DlCKNEITE,  Rev.  Raynerius  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Bokel,  near  Rietberg,  Westphalia,  November  II,  1832;  in  this 
country  since  November.  1859;  ordained  July  2,  i860;  member 
of  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  1870  to  1874;  had 
charge  of  Independence  from  1871  to  1873.  At  present  he  is 
stationed  in  diocese  of  Monterey,  Cal. 

72.  DILLON,  Rev.  John,  was  born  in  Drumcunny,  County 
Leitrim,  Ireland,  in  1807.  He  was  ordained  in  Cincinnati  with 
Very  Rev.  James  Conlan,  by  Bishop  Purcell,  September  20, 
1834;  was  sent  to  Cleveland  in  1835  as  the  first  resident  priest, 
where  also  he  organized  the  first  congregation.  He  raised  a 
collection  for  the  erection  of  a  church  on  the  Flats,  but  had 
not  the  happiness  to  begin  the  work.  He  died  of  bilious 
fever,  October  16,  1836.  His  remains,  at  first  interred  in  the 
Erie  Street  Cemetery,  were  transferred  to  the  Cathedral 
shortly  after  its  completion  in  1852,  and  entombed  in  one  of 
the  vaults  beneath  the  main  altar.  In  compliance  with  the 
dying  request  of  Very  Rev.  James  Conlan,  whose  intimate 
friend  and  class-mate  he  had  been,  they  were  then  taken  to  St. 
John's  Cemetery,  Cleveland — what  little  remained  of  them — 
and  enclosed  in  the  same  coffin  with  his,  the  same  monument 
marking  their  joint  grave.  But  a  little  more  than  two  years 
a  priest,  Father  Dillon  labored  with  much  success,  and 
endeared  himself  to  all  who  knew  him.  He  was  talented, 
energetic,  pious,  and  a  pulpit  orator  of  far  more  than  ordinary 
force  and  ability.  His  zeal  for  God's  cause  was  bounded  only 
by  his  physical  strength.  He  was  held  in  the  highest  esteem 
by  the  citizens  of  Cleveland,  irrespective  of  creed. 

73.  DOEBBING,  Rev.  Bernard  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Muenster,  Westphalia,  in    1855;  was  ordained  June    1,    18791 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  109 

professor  of  philosophy  at  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland, 
and  member  of  Franciscan  Monastery,  same  city,  from  Feb- 
ruary, 1880,  to  July,  1881.  He  is  now  in  Rome,  Italy,  engaged 
as  professor. 

74.  DOHERTY,  Rev.  John  Julius,  was  born  at  Vale  Ahar- 
low,  County  Tippcrary,  Ireland,  November  20,  18 17;  studied 
for  the  priesthood  at  Mt.  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Emmittsburg, 
Md.;  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Purcell,  at  Cincinnati,  April  23, 
1843.  His  first  appointment  was  as  assistant  at  the  Cathedral, 
Cincinnati,  till  February,  1844;  was  then  transferred  to  Mas- 
sillon,  where  he  built  the  first  (stone)  church,  used  by  St. 
Mary's  congregation.  He  remained  till  August  of  same  year, 
attending  during  this  time,  and  alternately  with  Rev.  M. 
Wuerz.  the  mission  of  Bethlehem  (Navarre).  His  next 
appointment  was  the  pastorate  of  St.  John's,  Canton,  which 
charge  he  retained  till  he  left  the  diocese,  August,  1848. 
From  Canton  he  attended  several  missions,  among  which 
were  Canal  Fulton,  and  Canal  Dover.  He  is  at  present  pas- 
tor of  St.  John's,  Honesdale,  Pa.,  diocese  of  Scranton,  where 
he  has  been  for  many  years. 

75.  DOLWECK,  Rev.  John  Peter,  was  born  at  Benning, 
diocese  of  Metz,  Lorraine,  August  26,  1828.  He  studied  for 
the  priesthood  at  Metz  and  in  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleve- 
land, and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  December  [I,  1853. 
He  was  pastor  of  St.  Mary's,  Sandusky,  from  December,  1833, 
till  April,  [855;  St.  Alphonse's,  Peru,  Huron  county,  till 
August,  [S01,  with  charge  of  St.  Peter's.  Norwalk,  from  Sep- 
tember, [860;  Berwick,  from  September,  [861,  till  April,  [862. 
Then  he  was  transferred  to  Liverpool,  Medina  count)-,  where 
he  remained  till  January,  [864.  He  then  left  the  diocese  t<> 
join  the  Benedictines,  of  whose  <  >rder  he  Has  been  a  member 
ever  since.  At  present  he  is  Prior  of  the  Benedictines  at  St 
M i<  hael's,  (  lnY.r 

70.  DREES,  Very  Rev.  Henry  Joseph  Sanguinist  ,  was 
born    at    Garell,    Oldenburg,    Germany,    March    3.    [830;    in 


no  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

America  since  1833;  ordained  November  7,  1861;  was  in  this 
diocese  as  pastor  of  New  Riegel,  from  September,  1864,  to 
August,  1866.  At  present  he  is  the  Provincial  of  the  San- 
Sfuinists  in  the  United  States,  with  residence  at  Carthagena, 
Mercer  county,  Ohio. 

yy.  Droessler,  Rev.  Dominic  (Franciscan),  was  born  in 
the  diocese  of  Paderborn,  Prussia,  August  2,  1843;  came  to 
the  United  States,  June,  1862;  ordained  January  13,  1867; 
belonged  to  the  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  1868 
to  1871;  and  again  from  January,  1873,  to  April,  1875;  had 
charge  of  Independence  from  1868  to  1869.  Now  lives  in 
Germany. 

78.  DROLSHAGEN,  Rev.  Gustave,  was  received  into  the 
diocese  in  1868;  after  a  short  stay  at  Antwerp,  Paulding 
county,  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Shelby  Settlement,  Jan- 
uary, 1870,  to  September,  1872;  then  of  St.  Peter's,  Norwalk, 
till  1874,  during  which  year  he  left  the  diocese  and  went  to 
Tennessee.     No  other  record  of  him. 

79.  DRUON,  Very  Rev.  Zephyrin,  was  born  at  Ven-din- 
le-Viel,  Pas-de-Calais,  France,  March  14,  1830;  made  his 
studies  for  the  ministry,  at  Arras,  France,  in  St.  Mary's  Sem- 
inary, Cleveland,  and  St.  Sulpice,  Paris;  was  ordained  in 
France  by  Bishop  Beauvais,  July  3,  1853;  returned  to  Cleve- 
land and  was  assistant  at  the  Cathedral  from  September  to 
December,  1853,  when  he  affiliated  with  the  diocese  of 
Burlington,  Vt.,  where  he  has  been  since.  For  many  years 
he  has  been  one  of  Bishop  de  Goesbriand's  Vicars-general ; 
also  pastor  of  Immaculate  Conception  Church,  St.  Albans, 
Vt.,  where  he  is  at  present  stationed. 

80.  EBERSCHWEILER,  Rev.  Fridolin  (Jesuit),  was  born  at 
Maxweiler,  diocese  of  Treves,  Rhenish-Prussia,  July  19,  1839; 
ordained  July  15,  1870;  came  to  this  country  in  1870;  was 
professor  at  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland,  from  1871  to 
1873;  assistant  at  St.  Mary's  Church,  Toledo,  from    1873  to 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  in 

1 88 1,  and  at  St.  Mary's  Cleveland,  from  1881  to  1882.  He 
was  then  sent  to  Montana,  where  he  has  been  since  on  the 
mission. 

81.  ElSENRING,  Rev.  Joseph  Thomas  (Sanguinist),  was 
born  at  Mosnang,  Canton  St.  Gallen,  Switzerland,  Novem- 
ber 1,  1844;  was  educated  at  St.  Gallen,  Switzerland,  and  at 
Carthagena,  Mercer  county,  Ohio.  He  was  ordained  for  the 
Sanguinists  by  Archbishop  Purcell,  August  15,  1873;  was  in 
this  diocese  from  January,  1876,  to  August,  1878,  as  pastor  of 
St.  Boniface's  Church,  and  local  Superior  of  Convent,  New 
Riegel.  During  his  pastorate  there  the  present  beautiful 
church  (third)  was  built.  In  1878  he  was  sent  to  Europe; 
returned  October,  1882.  He  is  now  stationed  in  Mercer 
county,  Ohio,  diocese  of  Cincinnati. 

82.  ElSENRING,  Rev.  Sebastian  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at 
Waldkirchen,  Switzerland,  May  10,  1852.  He  was  ordained 
for  the  Sanguinists  by  Archbishop  Purcell,  March  17,  1878; 
appointed  assistant  at  St.  John's,  Glandorf,  where  he  died  of 
consumption,  July  30,  1880,  aged  twenty-eight  years. 

83  ENGELHARD,  Rev.  Zephyrin  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Bilshausen,  Westphalia,  November  13,  185 1;  came  to  the 
United  States  in  1852;  ordained  June  18,  1878;  in  Franciscan 
Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  1879  to  1 880.  He  is  now  in  the 
diocese  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

84.  EVRARD,  Rev.  Charles,  was  born  in  the  city  of  Metz, 
Lorraine,  June  13,  1822.  He  was  educated  for  the  ministry 
at  Versailles,  where  also  he  was  ordained  by  Mgr.  Gross, 
Bishop  of  Versailles,  June  22,  1845.  After  five  years  service 
as  chaplain  and  parish  priest  in  Prance,  he  came  to  this  dio- 
cese August,  1850.  September  15th,  same  year,  he  was  sent 
to  Peru,  Huron  county,  where  under  his  direction  the  present 
church  and  pastoral  resilience  were  built.  January  6,  18541 
he  was  assigned  to  St.  Mary's,  Toledo.     There  he  built  the 

present  church,  since  enlarged.      He  held  this  charge  till  Sep- 


ii2  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

tember  29,  1867,  when  Bishop  Rappe  appointed  him  pastor  of 
Fort  Jennings.  This  position  he  declined  and  remained  with- 
out pastoral  charge  till  August  1,  1868,  when  he  again  accep- 
ted the  pastorate  of  Peru.  There  he  remained  till  November 
30,  1873,  when  Bishop  Gilmour  appointed  him  pastor  of  St. 
Joseph's,  Tiffin,  where  he  remained  till  his  death,  May  II, 
1885.  He  was  for  many  years  a  very  active  member  of  the 
Board  of  Infirm  Priests'  Fund,  and  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Bishop's  Council  for  some  time.  Father  Evrard  was  a  man 
of  strong  will,  decided  and  clear  views,  and  a  ceaseless  worker 
that  knew  not  self.  Wherever  he  labored  his  memory  is 
cherished  as  that,  of  a  priest  full  of  zeal  for  God's  work  and 
the  good  of  souls. 

85.  FAHEY,  Rev.  Anthony  (Dominican),  a  native  of  Ire- 
land, was  educated  in  Rome  for  the  priesthood;  came  to  the 
United  States  in  December,  1834..  He  had  pastoral  charge 
of  St.  Paul's,  near  Dungannon,  between  1834  and  1835,  and 
of  St.  John's,  Canton,  between  1836  and  1837.  No  other 
record  of  him. 

86.  FAHLE,  Rev.  Arsenius  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Paderborn,  Westphalia,  September  23,  1843;  ordained  March 
12,  1869;  member  of  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  from 
1880  to  1 88 1.     At  present  he  is  stationed  at  Chillicothe,  Mo. 

87.  Fahle,  Rev.  Ewaldus  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Paderborn,  Westphalia,  August  20,  1848;  studied  for  the 
ministry  at  Duesseldorf;  was  ordained  at  Paderborn  by 
Bishop  Martin  in  1873;  came  to  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleve- 
land, March,  1879,  remaining  till  February,  1880.  During  this 
time  he  was  professor  of  philosophy  at  St.  Mary's  Seminary, 
Cleveland.  In  1880  he  was  sent  by  his  superiors  to  Holland, 
where  he  is  at  present. 

88.  Faulhaber,  Rev.  Bonaventure  (Franciscan),  a  native 
of  Baden,  was  born  March  28,  1842;  made  his  ecclesiastical 
studies  at  Constance  and  Freiburg,  Baden,  and  Teutopolis, 
111.      He  was  ordained  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  for  the  Franciscans, 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  113 

by  Rt.  Rev.  P.  Ryan,  January  6,  1873;  was  in  the  Franciscan 
Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  July,  1873,  to  July,  1875,  and  from 
July,  188 1  to  January,  1887.  While  here  he  attended  the 
mission  of  Independence,  1873-75;  Parma  from  July,  1881  to 
January,  1887,  when  he  was  sent  by  his  superiors  to  Nebraska, 
where  he  now  is. 

89.  FERGUSON,  Rev.  Michael  Joseph  (Basilian),  was  born 
at  Ontaria,  Canada,  March  23,  1839;  educated  at  St.  Michael's 
College,  Toronto;  ordained  by  Bishop  Lynch  October  23, 
iHni;  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  from  1872  to  1873,  as  one 
of  the  professors  at  Louisville  College.  Returned  to  Canada* 
where  he  is  now  engaged  as  professor  at  Assumption  College, 
Sandwich,  Ontario. 

90.  FlLIERE,  Rev.  Louis  J.,  was  born   at   Dohen,   Pas-de 
•Calais,  Prance,  March  31,  1822.     Studied  for  the  priesthood  at 

Arras,  France,  where  he  received  part  of  Holy  orders.  He 
was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe  September  8,  1850;  was  pas- 
tor of  St.  John's,  Defiance,  November,  1850  to  March,  1854; 
had  charge  of  Providen.ee  till  1852,  also  of  [8  other  missions 
and  stations  in  Lucas,  Henry,  Wood,  Paulding  and  Fulton 
counties,  between  1850  and  1 856.  Pie  was  resident  pastor  of 
Providence  from  April,  [854  till  December,  1856,  with  Arch- 
bold,  Napoleon,  Bryan,  Stryker  and  Wauseon  as  missions.  He 
next  had  charge  ofBerea,  as  resident  pastor,  from  December. 
[856  to  February,  [876.  From  Berea  he  attended  Rockport 
till  [866,  and  Olmsted  till  [876.  February,  [876,  he  resigned 
all  pastoral  charge  and  retired  to  Milton  Centre,  Wood  county, 
<  )..  where  he  has  been  since. 

91.  FlNl  1  AN,  Rev.  William  ).,  a  native  of  Toledo,  (  )hio, 
was  born  November  30,  [853.  He  began  his  ecclesiastical 
studies  at  St.  Louis'  College,  Louisville,  Stark  county,  and 
completed  them  in  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland,  where  he 
was  ordained  by  Bishop  Gilmour  June  15.  [878.  Shortly  after 
his  ordination  he  was  sent  to  Massillon  to  take  temporary 
eh. 11  gi   of  St.  Joseph's  corigregation  during  the  absence  oi  the 


ii4  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

pastor.  November,  1878,  he  received  the  pastorate  of  St. 
Michael's,  Kelley's  Island,  and  the  mission  of  Put-in-Bay. 
July,  1880,  he  was  transferred  to  Jefferson,  whence  he  also 
attended  Conneaut.  This  charge  he  held  till  March,  1881, 
when  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Crestline,  remaining  till 
June,  1887,  when,  owing  to  failing  health  he  asked  to  be 
removed  to  another  place.  Salem  was  his  choice  and  there 
he  was  sent,  with  charge  of  East  Palestine  as  a  mission.  But 
he  was  soon  obliged  to  give  up  pastoral  work,  because  of 
protracted  and  serious  illness.  Resigning  in  December  of 
same  year  he  received  a  leave  of  absence  to  spend  the 
winter  in  the  southern  climate.  A  few  months  later  he 
returned,  but  not  improved.  He  retired  to  Toledo,  remain- 
ing till  his  death,  October  18,  1888.  He  was  a  young  man  of 
more  than  ordinary  ability,  an  excellent  pulpit  orator,  and 
had  the  confidence  of  the  people  among  whom  he  labored- 
His  remains  rest  in  Calvary  Cemetery,  Toledo. 

92.  Fitzgerald,  Rev.  William  J.,  was  born  in  New  York 
city  August  7,  1853;  educated  at  Toronto,  Cincinnati,  Mon- 
treal; finished  his  studies  at  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleve- 
land. He  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Gilmour,  December  26, 
1876;  was  appointed  assistant  at  St.  Malachy's,  Cleveland, 
remaining  till  July,  1880.  Then  he  received  charge  of  St. 
Patrick's,  Leetonia,  where  he  began  the  erection  of  the  pres- 
ent church,  but  did  not  live  to  see  its  completion.  It  pleased 
God  to  call  this  noble-hearted  young  priest  after  a  brief  illness, 
at  a  time  when  all,  to  the  human  eye,  was  fair  and  promising 
to  him.  He  died  at  his  father's  residence,  Columbus,  Ohio, 
March  22,  1882.  His  remains  are  buried  in  Cathedral  Ceme- 
tery, same  city. 

93.  FLAMMANG,  Rev.  Nicholas,  was  born  at  Consdorf, 
Luxemburg,  May  9,  1844.  He  came  to  Cleveland  Seminary 
March,  1866,  and,  after  completing  his  theological  studies, 
was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  March  7,  1869.  He  had  the 
following  pastoral  charges  in  this  diocese:  Findlay,  March, 
1869,    to   August,    1870;    Doylestown,    to     September,    187 1; 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  115 

Axon,  to  August,  1872;  New  Bavaria,  from  February  to  July, 
1873,  when  he  left  the  diocese.  He  was  for  several  years  on 
the  mission  in  Minnesota  and  Dakota,  and  from  1885  to  the 
time  of  his  death,  was  a  member  of  the  Benedictine  Order. 
He  died  at  Yankton,  Dakota,  February  10,  1887. 

94.  FLEISCH,  Rev.  George  (Sanguinist),  a  native  of  Aus- 
tria, was  born  at  Goetzis,  Tyrol,  November  1,  1846;  made  his 
ecclesiastical  studies  at  Feldkirch,  Austria,  and  St.  Charles' 
Seminary,  Carthagena,  Mercer  county,  Ohio;  ordained  at 
Cincinnati  for  the  Sanguinists,  by  Archbishop  Purcell,  June 
30,  1874;  was  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  as  pastor  of  Big 
Springs,  from  December,  1876,  to  August,  1877.  Since  then 
he  has  had  charge  of  missions  in  various  dioceses,  under  direc- 
tion of  the  Sanguinists.  He  is  now  stationed  in  the  diocese 
of  Cincinnati. 

95.  FLUM,  Rev.  Philip,  born  at  Constance,  Baden,  in 
[829;  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  July,  1852.  The  pas- 
torate of  Maumee  was  his  first  appointment,  1852-54.  There 
he  enlarged  the  church,  built  in  1841  by  Rev.  A.  Rappe;  dur- 
ing this  time  also  attended  Providence.  Between  1854  and 
1S55  he  was  Superior  of  St.  John's  College,  Cleveland. 
August,  1855,  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Dungannon, 
remaining  till  May,  1856,  when  ill  health  obliged  him  to 
resign.  He  then  left  the  diocese  and  went  to  Texas,  where 
he  died.  Date  of  death  not  recorded.  He  was  a  fine  linguist 
and  a  man  of  varied  learning. 

96.  FOCHENKRESS,  Rev.  P.  (Dominican),  was  stationed 
at  Canton  about  1836.      No  other  record  of  him. 

97.  FOLEY,  Rev.  Philip,  was  born  near  Mallow,  Ireland, 
about  [820,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Purcell,  March  2, 
1844.  I  lis  first  charge  in  Northern  Ohio  and  diocese  of  Cleve- 
land was  at  Massillon,  [846  to  [848,  whence  he  attended 
Canal  Fulton,  also  Wooster,  where  he  built  the  first  church. 
He    was  then   transferred,  February,    [848,   to   St.    Francis', 


n6  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

Toledo,  where  he  remained  till  November,  1854,  meanwhile 
attending  New  Bavaria  (Poplar  Ridge),  1849;  St.  John's, 
Defiance,  till  1849;  Six  Mile  Woods,  1848;  St.  Mary's  Corn- 
ers, 1853.  He  then  affiliated  with  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati, 
where  he  remained  till  1857.  Then  he  went  to  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  owing  to  ill  health.  He  died  there  May  1,  1857.  His 
remains  rest  in  St.  Francis'  de  Sales'  Cemetery,  Toledo. 

98.  FRAUENHOFER,  Rev.  Thomas,  was  born  at  Pfeffen- 
hausen,  Bavaria,  December  6,  18 17;  ordained  July  1,  1844; 
came  to  this  country  May,  1852;  was  in  the  diocese  of  Chicago 
for  some  time  (at  McHenry,  111.);  was  in  the  diocese  of 
Cleveland  as  pastor  of  French  Creek  from  July  24,  1864,  till 
January  20,  1868;  also  attended  Avon  as  a  mission.  He 
then  returned  to  Illinois,  where  he  died  August  21,  1881. 

99.  FREIGANG,  Rev.  Joseph,  a  native  of  Baden,  came  to 
this  country  in  1837;  ,,vas  first  stationed  at  Boston,  then  at 
Detroit.  From  the  latter  place  he  came  to  the  diocese  of 
Cincinnati  in  1840,  and  was  appointed  pastor  of  Peru,  Huron 
county,  whence  he  also  occasionally  attended  New  Washing- 
ton and  Tiffin.  Contrary  to  the  wish  of  Bishop  Purcell  he 
organized  St.  Peter's  congregation,  Norwalk,  and  in  so  doing 
caused  his  bishop  much  trouble.  He  was  dismissed  February, 
1 84 1.     No  other  record  of  him. 

100.  FRENSCH,  Rev.  Christian,  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at 
Hahn,  near  Nassau,  diocese  of  Limburg,  Prussia,  August  27, 
1827.  He  came  to  America,  October,  1855;  was  ordained  for 
the  Sanguinists  October  24,  1863;  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland 
from  January,  1864  to  August,  1866,  as  assistant  at  New  Rie- 
gel  and  pastor  of  Big  Springs;  from  April,  1865  to  August, 
1866  he  also  attended  Crawfordsville,  Wyandot  county.  He 
left  the  Sanguinists  March,  1869,  and  has  since  been  affiliated 
with  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati. 

101.  FRERE,  Rev.  Julius  Alfred,  was  born  at  St.  Ger- 
main-en-Laye,  France,  June  23,  1821;  studied  at  Versailles, 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  117 

France,  where  he  was  ordained  in  June,  1853;  did  pastoral 
duty  in  his  native  country  till  1858,  when  he  was  received  by 
Bishop  Rappe  and  appointed  pastor  of  Harrisburg,  Stark 
county,  where  he  remained  till  1863.  He  then  left  the  diocese 
and  went  to  Detroit.  In  1865  he  joined  the  Society  of  the 
Holy  Cross,  Notre  Dame,  Ind.,  and  has  since  continued  a 
member  thereof. 

102.  Fritz,  Rev.  Ehrhard  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at 
Buechlerthal,  Baden,  January  4,  1848;  made  his  ecclesiastical 
studies  at  St.  Charles'  Seminary,  Carthagena,  Mercer  county, 
().,  and  was  ordained  at  Cincinnati  by  Archbishop  Elder, 
May  30,  1885.  He  was  in  this  diocese  as  pastor  pro  tern,  of 
Assumption  Church,  Reed,  from  September  till  December, 
1885.      He  is  now  stationed  in  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati. 

103.  FRUZZINI,  Rev.  Joseph,  (Jesuit),  was  born  at  Brig, 
Canton  Wallis,  Switzerland,  April  13,  18 16;  joined  the  Society 
of  Jesus  November  4,  1833;  was  ordained  in  1847;  came  to 
America  the  following  year,  after  the  expulsion  of  the  Jesuits 
from  Switzerland.  He  was  stationed  for  some  time  at  Wil- 
liamsville,  \.  Y.,  in  the  present  diocese  of  Buffalo.  In  1853 
he  returned  to  Europe  where  he  was  employed  in  several 
colleges  and  houses  of  the  Society  in  Germany,  France  and 
Switzerland.  In  [869  he  returned  to  America;  was  assistant 
priesl  at  St.  Mary's,  Toledo,  ( ).,  in  1870  and  again  in  1877. 
After  an  illness  of  several  months,  which  he  bore  with  exem- 
plary patience,  he  died  in  Canisius  College,  Buffalo,  X.  Y.. 
May  22,  1SS0. 

104.  GALES,  Rev.  Nicholas  Sanguinist!,  was  born  in 
Wellenstein  Kleinmacher),  Luxemburg,  September  2,  [814; 
came  to  the  United  States  in  August,  [846;  joined  the  San- 
guinists  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  January  z~ ,  [851. 
His  field  of  labor  was  chiefly  in  this  diocese  Glandorf,  New 
Riegel,  Thompson  and  St.  Stephen's.  For  twenty-five  years 
he  abstained  from  the  use  of  meal  and  led  a  most  mortified 
life.  He  died  at  I  I  immelgarten,  Mercer  county,  Ohio,  |anu- 
ary  1.  [882. 


nS  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

105.  Gallagher,  Rev.  Joseph  F.,  was  born  at  Newport, 
County  Mayo,  Ireland,  May  22,  1836,  and  arrived  in  Cleveland 
July  9,  1847.  Made  his  studies  for  the  ministry  in  St.  John's 
College,  Cleveland,  at  Loretto,  Pa.,  and  St.  Mary's  Seminary, 
Cleveland.  Bishop  Rappe  ordained  him  June  30,  1861. 
Mansfield  was  his  first  appointment,  July,  1861,  till  May,  1862. 
He  was  then  sent  to  Wooster  where  he  remained  till  Septem- 
ber,   1865.     From  Mansfield  he  attended  Crestline,  till  May, 

1862,  where  he  built  the  present  frame  church.  While 
stationed  at  Wooster  he  attended  Mansfield,  till   December, 

1863,  Loudonville,  Orrville,  and  Lakeville,  from  May,  1862, 
till  September,  1865.  His  next  appointment  was  as  one  of 
the  assistants  at  the  Cathedral,  October,  1865,  to  September, 
1870,  when  he  was  sent  to  Toledo,  to  take  temporary  charge 
of  St.  Patrick's  congregation.  December,  1870,  he  was 
appointed  pastor  of  Holy  Rosary  Congregation,  Cleveland, 
which  charge  he  held  till  his  death,  January  30,  1886.  During 
this  last  appointment  he  built  St.  Columba's  Academy,  and 
nearly  brought  to  completion  the  present  (Holy  Name)  church, 
begun  by  same  congregation,  under  his  direction,  in  1881. 
Father  Gallagher  was  a  zealous  worker  for  Catholic  educa- 
tion and  total  abstinence. 

106.  GANTHER,  Rev.  Sebastian  (Sanguinist),  a  native  of 
jGermany,  was  born  in  Unter-Muensterthal,  Baden,  August 
20,  182 1 ;  in  the  United  States  since  May,  1847;  ordained  for 
the  Sanguinists,  by  Bishop  Rappe,  at  Peru,  Huron  county, 
June  5,  1849.  Between  1849  and  1852,  he  attended  from 
Thompson  (where  he  was  assistant)  the  missions  of  Bismarck 
(Sherman),  New  Washington,  and  St.  Stephen's,  Seneca 
county.  From  1852  to  1853,  he  attended  Fostoria,  Liberty, 
Crawfordsville,  Big  Springs  and  Upper  Sandusky,  from  New 
Riegel.  For  a  few  months  in  1853  he  was  assistant  at  Glan- 
dorf.  From  1863  to  1868  he  had  charge  of  the  mission  of 
New  Cleveland,  attending  it  from  Glandorf;  and  between 
1870  and  1872  he  attended  Reed  from  Thompson.  During 
the  interims   and  since   1872,  he  did  pastoral  duty  in  the  dio- 


SECULAR  AND  RE  G  ULAR  CLER  GY.  u9 

cescs  of  Ft.  Wayne  and  Cincinnati.     He   is  now  stationed  in 
the  latter  diocese. 

107.  GAUTHIER,  Rev.  F.,  D.  D.,  was  born  in  Quebec,  Can- 
ada, January  12,  1836;  studied  in  Quebec  and  Rome;  was 
ordained  at  Rome  by  Cardinal  Patrizzi,  October  7,  i860;  was 
in  this  diocese  as  pastor  of  St.  Louis'  church,  East  Toledo, 
from  September,  1872,  to  March,  1876;  first  resident  pas- 
tor of  St.  Mary's  Corners,  Fulton  county,  from  February,  1877, 
to  October,  1880,  when  he  left  and  was  received  into  the  dio- 
cese of  Detroit,  where  he  is  at  present. 

108.  GAYER,  Rev.  Adolph  (Jesuit),  was  stationed  at  St. 
Mary's,  Toledo,  from  March  to  June,  1875.  He  then  left  the 
Jesuits,  became  a  secular  priest,  and  returned  to  Europe.  He 
is  now  chaplain  to  a  family  of  nobility  in  Sigmaringen. 

109.  GEHLING,  Rev.  W.,  attended  Dungannon  from  Feb- 
ruary to  May,  1858,  which  was  the  only  charge  he  held  in  this 
diocese. 

no.  GELASZEWSKI,  Rev.  Alexander,  a  native  of  Poland, 
was  in  this  diocese  as  first  resident  pastor  of  French  Creek 
congregation,  of  which  he  had  charge  from  August  till 
December,  1850.  During  this  time  he  also  attended  Sheffield 
and  Avon  as  missions.      No  other  record  of  him. 


111.  Gezowski,  Rev.  Joseph,  was  born  in  Koeniggraetz, 
Bohemia,  February  [3,  1811;  ordained  January  29,  [838; 
came  to  the  United  States  July,  1850;  was  in  the  diocese  of 
Cleveland  from  [854  to  [855,  first  as  assistant  to  Rev.  J.  II. 
Luhr,  at  St.  Peter's,  Cleveland,  then  assistant  at  St.  Mary's, 
same  city.  In  1X55  he  left  the  diocese  and  joined  the  Carme- 
lite I  >rder.  Was  for  a  time  in  Covington  diocese.  Then 
went  to  New  York  city,  where  he  died  July  25,  ixsi,  as  chap- 
lain of  St.  Joseph's  Asylum,  of  which  he  was  the  founder. 

[12.  Gibbons,  Rev.  Walter  John,  was  born  in  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  March  5,  [844,  where  he  was  also  educated  for  the  min- 
istry.    He    was   ordained    by  Bishop  Rappe,  May   is,    [867. 


i2o  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

His  charges  were:  Maumee,  June  9,  1867  to  September  1, 
1870;  professor  at  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  September,  1870  to 
July,  1871;  Youngstown,  St.  Columba's,  August,  1871  to  July 
1872;  Ravenna  and  Kent,  July,  1872  to  May,  1874.  After  a 
few  months'  leave  of  absence  on  account  of  sickness  he 
was  pastor  of  St.  Augustine's,  Cleveland,  from  September,  1874 
to  July,  1875.  He  was  again  compelled  to  give  up  pas- 
toral work  because  of  ill  health,  remaining  off  duty  till 
November,  1876.  Next  he  was  assistant  at  St.  Francis', 
Toledo,  till  February,  1877,  when  he  again  assumed  charge 
of  St.  Augustine's  Cleveland.  May  30,  1878,  he  was  appoin- 
ted pastor  of  Bellevue,  where  he  died  April  1,  1885,  soon  after 
completing  the  present  beautiful  church.  His  remains  are 
buried  in  St.  John's  Cemetery,  Cleveland.  Father  Gibbons 
was  an  eloquent  preacher  and  an  earnest  worker  in  the  cause 
of  Catholic  schools. 

113  GlLLIBERTI,  Rev.  A.  R.,  a  native  of  Italy,  was  sta- 
tioned at  the  Cathedral  as  assistant  from  March  to  September, 
1862.     No  other  record  of  him. 

114.  GOEBBELS,  Rev.  Joseph  J.,  was  born  at  Duesseldorf, 
Prussia,  August  30,  18 16;  came  to  the  United  States  Febru- 
ary, 1857;  was  ordained  February  24,  1859;  m  the  diocese  of 
Cleveland  from  1861  to  1864,  during  which  time  he  was  pas- 
tor of  Fort  Jennings.  Whilst  there  he  built  the  present  pas- 
toral residence.  From  Fort  Jennings  he  also  attended  Kalida 
(1861)  and  Ottoville  (1861-63).  He  died  at  Covington,  Ky., 
October  II,  1885. 

115.  GONTHYN,  Rev.  Edward,  a  Belgian,  was  in  this  dio- 
cese from  1869  to  1870,  and  during  that  time  had  charge  of 
the  Catholic  French  in  Cleveland,  who  then  attended  Mass  in 
St.  Mary's  Church  on  the  Flats:  He  left  Cleveland  for  Wis- 
consin, and  died  suddenly  at  Preble,  diocese  of  Green  Bay, 
March  9,  1879. 

116.  Goodwin,  Rev.  Jacob,  was  pastor  of  St.  Vincent's 
Akron,   from  1849   to  1850,  when    he  left   the  diocese.     From 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  121 

Akron   he  also  attended  Doylestown.     No    other    record    of 
him. 

117.  GRANDMOUGIN;  Rev.  C.  A.,  was  born  at  Bezange- 
la-Petite,  France,  in  1842;  finished  his  studies  for  the  ministry 
in  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop 
Rappe  February  14,  [867;  was  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Augus- 
tine's. Cleveland,  where  he  died,  November  25,  1871,  of  small- 
pox, contracted  whilst  attending-  a  sick  call. 

118.  GREISCH,  Rev.  Nicholas  (Jesuit),  was  born  at  Esch- 
an-der-Sauer,  Luxemburg,  February  9,  183 1;  ordained  August 
30,  1855;  was  at  St.  Mary's,  Toledo,  from  March,  1869  till 
February,  1875,  first  as  assistant,  then  as  pastor,  from  March, 
1872.      Me  is  now  stationed  in  the  diocese  of  La  Crosse. 

119.  GREVIN,  Rev.  Louis,  was  born  and  ordained  in 
France;  came  to  this  diocese  November,  1855,  when  he  was 
appointed  pastor  of  Harrisburg.  There  he  remained  till  1857, 
when  he  was  transferred  to  the  Cathedral,  remaining,  however, 
but  a  few  months,  when  he  left  the  diocese.  lie  was  then 
received  into  the  diocese  of  Ft.  Wayne  where  he  remained 
till  1865.     Then  he  returned  to   France  and  died  about  1870. 

120.  HACKSPIEL,  Rev.  John,  was  born  at  Riefensberg, 
Tyrol,  Austria,  August  15,  1825;  ordained  July,  1849;  came 
to  the  United  States  November  18,  1857;  was  at  once  received 
into  the  diocese  November,  1857)  when  he  was  made  pastor 
of  Randolph,  which  charge  he  held  till  July,  [861.  His  next 
appointment  was  the  pastorate  of  St.  Marx's,  Sandusky,  where 
he  remained  till  October,  [862,  meanwhile  beginning  the 
erection  of  the  present  parochial  school.  November,  [862, 
he  was  transferred  to  French  Creek,  from  which  place  he  also 
attended  Avon  and  Sheffield.  March,  [864,  he  was  sent  to 
St.  Peter's,  ('anion,  of  which  congregation  he  had  charge  till 
August,  [865,  when  he  left  the  diocese  to  join  the  Jesuits. 
lie  remained  in  this  Society  till  his  death,  in  New  York  city, 
as  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's  Church,  March  31,  [885.  He  was  .1 
learned  and  saintly  priest. 


122  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

121.  Haemers,  Rev.  H.  E.,  was  pastor  of  Fort  Jennings 
from  1864  till  September,  1866;  had  temporary  charge  of  St. 
Joseph's,  Toledo,  and  Sylvania  during  the  fall  of  1866,  when, 
about  November  of  the  same  year,  he  was  sent  to  Peru. 
There  he  remained  only  till  January,  1867,  when  he  was  dis- 
missed from  the  diocese. 

122.  HAETSCHER,  Rev.  Francis  Xavier  (Redemptorist), 
was  born  in  Austria,  December  1,  1784;  ordained  there  Janu- 
ary 23,  18 16;  was  stationed  at  Peru,  Huron  county,  between 
1832  and  1833;  during  the  summer  of  1832  he  attended  Tiffin 
from  Peru;  returned  to  Europe  in  the  Autumn  of  1837;  died 
at  Loeben,  Austria,  January  3,  1863. 

123.  H ALLEY,  Rev.  Thomas  F.,  was  born  at  Tramore, 
County  Waterford,  Ireland,  January  14,  1853;  made  his 
course  of  studies  for  the  ministry  in  Waterford,  Mt.  Melleray 
and  All  Hallows',  Ireland,  and  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  com- 
pleted them  at  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland,  where  he  was 
ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  December  2,  i860.  Immediately 
after  his  ordination  he  was  sent  as  assistant  to  St.  Francis', 
Toledo,  whence  after  a  short  time  he  was  transferred  as  pro- 
fessor to  St.  Mary's  Seminary.  August,  1862,  he  was  appointed 
pastor  of  Grafton,  where  he  began  and  brought  under  roof  the 
present  church.  April,  1868,  he  was- assigned  the  pastorate  of 
St.  Mary's,  Norwalk,  where  he  remained  till  his  death,  January 
4,  1885.  He  was  for  years  a  patient  sufferer  from  a  hurt 
received  when  a  youth,  which  caused  him  more  or  less  pain 
through  life,  especially  in  his  latter  years. 

124.  HAMENE,  Rev.  James,  was  born,  1825,  in  the  village 
ofChemery,  diocese  of  Metz,  Lorraine,  France;  made  his  col- 
legiate studies  at  Sierk,  and  philosophy  and  part  of  theology 
in  the  Diocesan  Seminary  of  Metz.  He  was  received  as  a 
student  for  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  in  the  beginning  of  1852, 
and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  December  II,  1853. 
Peru,  Huron  county,  was  his  first  charge,  January,  1854  to 
April,  185 5-     At  Peru  he  established  a  parochial  school;   also 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  123 

attended  St.  Peter's,  Norwalk,  from  Peru.  He  next  had 
charge  of  St.  Mary's,  Sandusky,  June,  1855,  to  July,  1861, 
where,  under  his  direction,  the  congregation  built  their  first 
church,  the  present  pastoral  residence,  and  a  school.  From 
Sandusky  he  was  transferred  to  St.  Mary's,  Cleveland,  where 
he  remained  till  September,  1862,  when  he  was  appointed 
pastor  of  Maumee,  with  charge  of  Perrysburg  as  a  mission, 
remaining  till  1863.  His  next  appointment  was  St.  Mary's, 
Massillon,  till  1867.  There  also  he  built  the  present  pastoral 
residence.  In  1867  he  returned  to  France,  where  he  did  pas- 
toral duty  till  his  death,  April  14,  [886.  His  remains  are- 
buried  in  his  native  village,  Chemerv. 

125.  HANSEN,  Rev.  H.  Beda  (Franciscan),  was  born  at  Bed- 
burg,  Rhenish  Prussia,  November  26,  1847;  ordained  March 
21,  1874;  in  the  United  States  since  July,  1875;  at  Franciscan 
Monaster)-,  Cleveland,  from  188  1  to  1882.  He  is  now  a  secu- 
lar priest  and  stationed  in  the  diocese  of  Columbus. 

126.  HAUSSNER,  Rev.  Victor,  was  born  at  Frlinsbach, 
Switzerland,  December  7,  1833;  came  to  the  United  States, 
April,  [856,  when  he  joined  the  Sanguinists  and  was  ordained 
by  Bishop  Rappe,  August  28,  1857.  No  record  of  his  pastoral 
charges  till  [861  (the  year  he  left  the  Sanguinists),  when  he 
was  pastor  of  Avon,  from  June  to  August,  1861.  He  was  then 
assigned  the  pastorate  of  Randolph,  remaining  till  July  12, 
[868;  there  also,  he  built  the  present  church.  His  next  charge- 
was    St.    Mary's,   Sandusky,  till   September,    1S72.      Bismarck 

herman),  Huron  county,  was  his  next  field  of  labor.  There 
hi'  remained  till  March,  1 S 7 < > ,  when  because  of  ill  heath  he 
did  no  pastoral  duty  for  four  mouths.  In  June  of  same  year  he 
was  sent  to  St.  Peter's,  North  Ridgeville,  where  he  labored  till 
1 1  cember,  [880,  when  a  relapse  disabled  him  permanently. 
January,  [881,  he  went  to  Charity  Hospital.  Clew-land,  and 
alter  many  weeks  of  suffering,  died  April  28,  [881. 

127.  Mi  1  ii  r,  Rev.  Edward,  1 ).  1 ).,  .1  native  of  Alsace,  was 
born  at  Rufach,  October  1,  [836.     He  made  his  ecclesiastical 


i24  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

studies  at  Strassburg  and  Rome;  obtained  in  the  latter  city 
the  doctorate  in  philosophy,  theology  and  canon  law.  He 
was  ordained  at  Strassburg-  by  Bishop  Raess,  December  17, 
1859.  From  i860  to  1864  he  was  chaplain  at  St.  Louis-des- 
Francais',  Rome;  then  preceptor  in  Hungary  from  1865  to 
1869.  September,  1869,  he  came  to  the  United  States  and 
was  appointed  professor  of  philosophy  and  dogmatic  theology 
at  Mt.  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  which  position  he 
held  till  the  close  of  the  Seminary  in  1880.  In  September  of 
same  year  he  was  received  into  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleve- 
land, and  appointed  professor  of  the  same  branches  he  taught 
at  Cincinnati.  In  August,  1887,  he  was  recalled  to  Mt.  St. 
Mary's  Seminary,  Cincinnati,  where  he  died  after  a  few  days' 
illness,  January  9,  1888.  He  was  a  true  Nathanael — a  man 
without  guile,  learned,  unostentatious,  devoted  to  his  work  as 
a  professor,  and  a  man  of  solid  piety.  His  remains  repose  in 
St.  Joseph's  Cemetery,  Cincinnati. 

128.  Hei.MO,  Rev.  Joseph  Anthony,  was  born  in  Freiburg, 
Switzerland;  ordained  in  his  native  country,  from  which  he 
and  the  inmates  of  his  convent  (Black  Friars)  were  expelled 
by  the  Swiss  government  in  1848;  came  to  this  diocese  July, 
i860,  and  was  given  charge  of  the  missions  of  Strasburg  and 
Harrisburg,  which  he  attended  from  Calmoutier,  Holmes 
county,  from  1849  to  1868  under  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Bishop 
of  Cleveland.  He  died  at  Calmoutier,  April  12,  1859,  aged 
50  years. 

129.  Heitz,  Rev.  Joseph  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at  Sher- 
man (Bismarck)  Huron  county,  Ohio,  June  9,  1856;  educated 
at  Carthagena,  Ohio,  and  Teutopolis,  111.;  ordained  for  the 
Sanguinists  by  Bishop  Elder,  June  11,  1881;  was  in  the  dio- 
cese of  Cleveland  as  assistant  at  Glandorf  from  January  to 
August,  1882;  and  as  pastor  of  Big  Springs  from  August 
1882,  to  October  20,  1883.  Has  since  been  in  the  diocese  of 
Nashville. 

130.  HENNEBERRY,  Rev.  Patrick  (Sanguinist),  a  native  of 
Ireland,    was    born    January    30,    1830;    ordained   by   Bishop 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  12 


3 


Rappe,  at  New  Riegel,  for  the  Sanguinists,  November  21, 
1853;  was  pastor  of  St.  John's,  Defiance,  in  1855;  of  Lima 
between  1856  and  i860,  with  charge  of  the  missions  of  Con- 
voy, (1859),  ancl  Spencerville  (1858).  He  was  also  Superior 
of  the  Sanguinist  Convent  at  New  Riegel,  from  February. 
i860,  to  August,  1864,  meanwhile  attending,  at  irregular 
intervals,  the  missions  of  Kenton,  Hardin  count)-,  McCutch- 
enville,  Crawfordsville  and  Upper  Sandusky.  In  1864  he 
went  to  California  to  establish  a  college  under  the  direction 
of  the  Sanguinist  Society.  This  project  failing,  he  went  to 
preach  missions  and  total  abstinence  in  Australia,  South 
Africa  and  East  India.  He  is  now  engaged  giving  missions 
in  the  western  part  of  the  United  States.  He  preaches 
equally  well  in  the  English  and  German  languages. 

131.  HENNI,  Most  Rev.  John  Martin,  was  born  in  Switzer- 
land, June  15,  1805;  ordained  by  Bishop  Fenwick,  February 
2,  [829;  pastor  of  Canton,  Stark  county,  from  1830  to  1834, 
attending  meanwhile  Dungannon  and  the  scattered  missions 
of  Columbiana  and  Wayne  counties.  From  Canton  he  also 
attended  Doylestown  (1830),  Canal  Fulton  (1830)  and  occa- 
sionally Peru,  Huron  county.  In  183411c  was  transferred  to 
Cincinnati,  where  he  organized  Holy  Trinity  congregation. 
A  few  years  later  he  also  established  the  Wahrheits  Freundt 
the  oldest  Catholic  German  paper  in  the  United  States.     May, 

[838,  he   was  appointed   Vicar-general  of  the  Cincinnati  dio- 

March    [9,    [844,  he  was    consecrated  first  Bishop  ol 

Milwaukee.        Died  as  Archbishop  of    same  See,  September  7, 

[881,  full  of  years  and  merit.     He  was  a  true  man  of  Cod. 

[32.  HENRIOT,  Rev.  Stephen,  was  stationed  at  Cathedral, 
Cleveland,  from  March  to  May,  [854;  came  from  and  returned 
to  the  diocese  ol  New  <  Orleans.     No  other  record  of  him. 

133,  HENRY,  Rev.  Francis  J.,  was  horn  near  Dreenan, 
Coimt\-    Derry,    Ireland,    April    14,    [848;  math-  part   of  his 

lesiastical  studies  in  Ireland,  St.  Vincent's,  Westmoreland 
count).  Pa.,  .md  finished  them  in  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleve- 


i26  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

land.  May  7,  187 1,  he  was  ordained  at  Toledo  for  this  dio- 
cese by  Bishop  Luers,  of  Ft.  Wayne.  Had  temporary  charge 
of  St.  Patrick's,  Toledo,  till  May  1,  1872,  when  he  was 
appointed  pastor  of  Briar  Hill,  with  charge  of  Mineral  Ridge, 
Girard  and  Canfield  as  missions.  June,  1876,  he  was  sent  to 
St.  Rose's,  Lima,  whose  successful  pastor  he  was  till  his  death, 
February  22,  1886.  Father  Henry  was  an  earnest,  hard- 
working priest. 

134.  HENSELER,  Rev.  Augustine  (Franciscan),  a  West- 
phalian,  was  born  at  Guetersloh,  August  8,  1836;  ordained 
June  14,  1862;  in  the  United  States  since  October,  1876; 
member  of  the  Franciscan  Monastery  and  assistant  at  St. 
Joseph's  Cleveland,  from  1876  to  1879;  then  pastor  of  St. 
Peter's,  Chicago,  till  1884.  He  is  now  stationed  at  Indian- 
apolis, Ind. 

135.  HENZLER,  Rev.  Eusebius,  was  born  at  Muelheim, 
Wuerttemberg,  August  14,  1823;  ordained  September,  1853; 
received  into  this  diocese,  June,  1859,  when  he  was  appointed 
assistant  to  Rev.  A.  Dambach,  at  French  Creek,  acting  as 
such  till  June,  i860,  and  meanwhile  attending  Avon,  of  which 
place  he  had  charge  till  June,  1861.  He  then  left  the  diocese 
and  went  to  Wisconsin,  where  he  died  about  1870,  as  pastor 
of  French  Creek,  Kossuth  county. 

136.  HERBSTRITT,  Rev.  Andrew  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at 
Fuehrenthal,  Baden,  September  15,  1823;  came  to  the  United 
States  July,  1844;  was  ordained  February  23,  1848,  for  the 
Sanguinist  Society;  did  pastoral  work  at  Avon,  New  Riegel 
and  Glandorf  in  this  diocese,  and  at  Wapakoneta,  Auglaize 
county,  O.,  whilst  a  Sanguinist.  He  left  the  Sanguinist 
Society  in  1865  and  became  a  secular  priest.  Then,  for  nearly 
three  years,  he  was  pastor  of  St.  Mary's,  Sandusky,  where  he 
bought  the  lots  on  which  the  present  beautiful  church  is  built. 
July,  1868,  he  was  transferred  to  Randolph,  remaining  till  Feb- 
ruary, 1869,  when  he  left  this  diocese  and  was  received  by  the 
Bishop  of  Detroit.  He  died  at  Wyandotte,  Mich.,  September 
3,  1880. 


Si  .  Si  \\i    i  is'  (  POLISH)  CHURCH,  CLEVE1  VND,  <  >. 
[Length  200  ft.;  width  in  transept  107  ft.;  width  of  nave  86  ft. ;  height  of  spires  232 ft. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  127 

137.  HERZOG,  Rev.  Henry,  was  first  resident  pastor  of  Ft. 
Jennings,  Putnam  county,  between  1840  and  1848.  In  1850 
he  was  stationed  at  St.  Henry's,  Mercer  county,  O.  Died  at 
Minster,  Auglaize  county,  O.,  in  185  1. 

138.  HlEBER,  Rev.  John  George  (Jesuit),  was  born  at 
Kleinkuchen,  Wuerttemberg,  July  22,  1837;  educated  for  the 
ministry  at  Augsburg  and  Munich;  ordained  by  Mgr.  von 
Dinkel,  Bishop  of  Augsburg,  August  9,  1863;  held  various 
positions  in  Europe  and  United  States,  first  as  a  secular  priest, 
then  as  a  member  of  the  Society  of  Jesus.  Was  in  this 
diocese  as  assistant  at  St.  Mary's,  Toledo,  from  1869  to  July, 
1870;  again  from  1X77  to  1883;  then  assistant  at  St.  Mary's, 
Cleveland,  from  1883  to  July,  1886.  He  is  now  stationed  at 
Burlington,  Iowa. 

139.  HILL,  Very  Rev.  John  Austin  (Dominican),  a  native 

of  England,  was   born  in    1777.      His  parents  were  Anglicans, 

and  persons  of  distinction  and  wealth.     They  sent  him  to  the 

College  of  St.    (  >mer,   France,  where  he    made   his    classical 

studies.       After    completing    them    he    entered    the    English 

army,  but  soon   asked  and  obtained  his  release  from   military 

service,   which  had   become  distasteful   to  him.     Shortly  after 

this  he  married  an  estimable  lady  and  entered  the  Catholic 

church.        Soon  he  felt  that  he  was  called  to  serve  God  in  the 

priesthood.     1  lis  wife,  seconding  his  holy  ambition,  voluntarily 

embraced  the  life  of  a  nun  in  a  Belgian  convent,  whilst  Mr. 

Hill   went  to   enter  a  seminary  in    Prance  to   prosecute    his 

studies  for  the   sacred  ministry.     Before   he  entered  he  was 

arrested  by  the  French  authorities,    who  held   him   for  two 

years  a  prisoner  of  state.      Upon   his  release   In-   returned  to 

England  and  was  received  into  tin-  college  of  ( )ld  I  [all  Green. 

Two  years  later  he  went  to  Rome  and  entered  the  Dominican 

nventofthe  Minerva.     In  [821  he  received  the  Dominican 
habil  .uid  I  loly  1  frders.    Ardently  desirous  of  devoting  himself 

to  the  American  mis-ions  his  wish  was  -ratified  by  his  supe- 
riors, win.  sent  him  to  St.  Rose's,  Kentucky,  in  [82  The 
Rt  Rev.  I-.,  l'enw  id.  had  been  consecrated  bishop  of  the  newly 


128  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF   THE 

erected  See  of  Cincinnati  during  that  year  and  was  much  in 
need  of  priests  for  the  missions  of  his  vast  diocese.  Father 
Hill  was  sent  to  him,  remaining  for  some  time  at  Cincinnati. 
Six  months  after  his  arrival  he  was  appointed  Vicar-general. 
In  1824  he  was  sent  to  Northern  Ohio  to  take  charge  of  the 
missions  and  stations  in  Columbiana  and  Stark  counties, 
attending  them  for  a  few  months  from  the  Dominican  Con- 
vent in  Perry  county.  November,  1824,  he  was  appointed 
resident  pastor  of  St.  John's,  Canton,  where  he  remained  till 
his  death,  September  3,  1828.  In  compliance  with  his  wish 
his  remains  were  interred  beneath  the  eaves  of  the  south  side 
of  the  church  which  had  been  built  under  his  direction.  Some 
years  later,  however,  they  were  reinterred  in  the  center  of  St. 
John's  Cemetery,  Canton,  and  a  plain  white  marble  slab  placed 
over  them,  containing,  in  classical  latin,  an  epitaph  composed 
by  Father  Henni,  descriptive,  in  brief,  of  his  virtues  and  worth. 
Father  Hill  was  a  man  of  commanding,  soldierly  appearance, 
due  no  doubt  to  his  early  military  training.  He  was  an  elo- 
quent preacher,  a  keen  controversialist,  a  thorough  scholar, 
and  as  a  priest  a  living  example  of  sacerdotal  virtues. 

140.  HILLS,  Rev.  E.  M.  W.,  a  convert  from  Anglicanism, 
studied  for  the  priesthood  for  some  time  at  Mt.  St.  Mary's 
Seminary,  Cincinnati;  was  ordained  for  the  diocese  of  Cov- 
ington by  Bishop  Toebbe,  in  1871,  and  stationed  at  Immacu- 
late Conception  Church,  Newport,  Ky.,  till  1873,  when  he 
came  to  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  Bishop  Gilmour  sent  him 
to  South  Thompson,  where  he  remained  till  1875.  His  next 
appointment,  after  a  few  months'  illness,  was  Kelley's  Island, 
November,  1876,  which  charge  he  held  till  July,  1878,  when 
he  left  the  diocese  and  the  ministry,  and  again  joined  the 
Anglican  sect,  of  which  he  is  at  present  a  minister. 

141.  HlPELlUS,  Rev.  Edward,  was  born  at  Stadtlauringen, 
Bavaria,  February  7,  1836;  studied  at  the  Royal  College  of 
Muennerstadt,  Bavaria,  St.  Vincent's  College,  Westmoreland 
county,  Pa.,  and  at  Rome.  In  the  last  mentioned  place  he 
received   the  doctorate  in  canon   law.      He  was  ordained  for 


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the  Benedictines  by  Bishop  Young,  of  Erie,  August  8,  1858. 
Became  a  secular  priest,  and  was  in  this  diocese  as  pastor  of 
Holy  Family  Church,  New  Cleveland,  from  May,  1878,  to 
June  20,  1880,  when  he  left.  He  is  now  in  the  diocese  of 
Albany. 

142.  HOFFM  \\X,  Rev.  ,  D.D.,  a  native  of  Strassburg, 

France,  was  pastor  of  St.  John's,  Canton,  from  1836  to  1837, 
whence  he  also  attended  Louisville,  Stark  county,  and  Doyles- 
town,  Wayne  county.  Returned  to  Europe  in  1838,  where 
he  died. 

143.  HOMBURGER,  Rev.  Maximilian  (Sanguinist),  was 
born  at  Gruenkraut,  Wuerttemberg,  Germany,  in  18 17.  Came 
to  the  United  States  in  1844,  and  after  completing  his  studies 
under  direction  of  Very  Rev.  Father  Brunner,  was  ordained 
by  Bishop  Rappe,  February  28,  1848.  He  did  pastoral  duty 
at  Thompson  (1848-53;  and  Glandorf,  1853,  till  June,  1854. 
when  he  returned  to  Furope,  where  he  did  pastoral  duty  in 
various  dioceses  as  a  Sanguinist,  till  his  death,  at  Wolperts- 
wende,  Wuerttemberg,  May  28,  1875.  He  was  a  model  religious 
and  a  zealous  priest. 

[44.  HORSTMANN,  Rev.  William  John,  was  born,  1778,  in 
Germany;  ordained  in  Osnabrueck  about  1803;  was  professor 
for  man}-  years  in  Westphalia.  1  le  came  to  the  United  States 
in  1833,  with  a  band  of  emigrants,  and  with  them  settled  in 
Putnam  count}-,  (  ).,  founding  the  village  and  congregation  of 
Glandorf,  where  in  the  midst  of  hardships  and  privations  he 
labored  among  his  flock  till  his  death,  February,  21,  1843.  lie 
attended  fort  Jennings  from  Glandorf;  first  from  1834  to 
[840,  and  then  as  successor  to  Rev.  father  Herzog  in  1841. 
lli^  remains   are  buried  at   Glandorf,    where  the  congregation, 

in  ful  remembrance  "f  his  labors  among  them,  erected 

(1883    .1  beautiful  and  costly  monument  over  his  grave. 

145.  HOI  RS,  Rev.  Francis  (Basi'ian),  born,  1834,  at 
Ardeche,    France,  was   educated    at    Annonay;   ordained  at 


130  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF   THE 

Viviers,  France,  in  1856.  Was  in  the  diocese  as  Superior  of 
Louisville  College,  from  1867  to  1873.  Is  at  present  doing 
pastoral  duty  at  Owen  Sound,  diocese  of  Hamilton,  Ont. 

146.     Howard,  Rev.  Maurice,  was  born  in  the  parish  of 
Effin,  County  Limerick,  Ireland,  January  4,  18 13.      He  began 
his  ecclesiastical  studies  in  Ireland  and  finished  them  in  this 
country.     He  was  ordained  in  the  old  cathedral  at  Cincinnati 
by  Bishop   Purcell,  October   23,    1842.     Doylestown  was   his 
first  charge,  December  25,  1842,  to  February  25,  1846,  whence 
he  also   attended   Mansfield,    Wooster   and    Cuyahoga  Falls. 
He  was  then  sent  to  take  charge  of  St. -Mary's,  on  the  Flats, 
Cleveland,  where  he  remained  till  January  22,  1848,  when  he 
received    the    pastorate    of    St.    Mary's,-   Tiffin.       There-    he 
remained  till  he  left  the  diocese,  May  I,  1850.      From  Doyles- 
town  he   attended   missions  in   Richland,   Crawford,   Medina, 
Summit,  Portage  and  Mahoning  counties,  and  occasionally  in 
Huron  county.     From  Cleveland  he  also  attended  missions  in 
Geauga   and    Lake   counties.     After  leaving  this  diocese  he 
was   appointed    pastor  of  St.   Raphael's  Church,  Springfield, 
Ohio,  remaining  till  November  1863,   when  he   was  received 
into  the  diocese  of  Chicago,  and  appointed  pastor  of  Gales- 
burg— February,  1864  to  August,  1877;  and  of  St.  Augustine's, 
Knox  county,  (now  in  the  diocese  of  Peoria),  August,  1877,  to 
May,  1878.      He  then  affiliated  with  the  diocese  of  Dubuque, 
and   was    appointed    pastor  of  St.   Francis  de   Sales'  church, 
Keokuk,  Iowa.     This  charge  he  held  from  May,  1878,  till  his 
death,  February  25,  1887. 

147.  HUNT,  Rev.  James,  was  born  at  Gurteen,  County 
Sligo,  Ireland,  in  1849  ;  began  his  studies  for  the  ministry  in 
Ireland,  and  completed  them  in  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleve- 
land ;  was  ordained  at  Notre  Dame,  Ind.,  by  Bishop  Gilmour, 
August  8,  1874.  For  some  years  previous  to  his  ordination 
he  failed  in  health  and  never  recovered;  was  sent  as  assistant 
to  St.  Columba's,  Youngstown,  where  he  died,  October  31,  1875. 
He  was  a  talented  young  priest,  and  a  thorough  ecclesiastic. 
His  remains  rest  in  St.  John's  Cemetery,  Cleveland. 


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148.  IVERS,  Rev.  Michael,  was  born,  educated  and  ordain- 
ed in  Ireland;  was  in  this  diocese  from  1869  till  1873,  first  as 
locum  tenens  at  St.  Francis',  Toledo,  for  several  months,  then 
as  assistant  at  the  Cathedral,  whence  he  also  attended  Niles, 
during  1 87 1.  He  left  the  diocese  in  1873.  No  record  of  him 
till  his  death  at  sea,  where,  October  14,  1881,  he  was  lost  from 
the  steamer  Havana,  on  its  way  from  Europe  to  Baltimore. 

149.  JACOMET,  Rev.  John  B.  (Sanguinist),  was  born  in 
Switzerland,  June  17,  181 1 ;  ordained  for  the  Sanguinists  at 
Feldkirch,  Austria,  by  Bishop  Fuender,  May  11,  1843.  He 
remained  with  the  Sanguinists  till  1845,  when  he  was 
appointed  assistant  to  Rev.  J.  H.  Luhr,  at  St.  Peter's, 
Canton,  where  he  remained  till  185 1.  During  this  time  he 
also  attended  St.  Mary's,  Massillon,  Navarre,  and  occasionally 
St.  John's,  Canton,  lie  also  attended  Tiffin,  about  1845.  In 
1852  he  left  the  diocese. — In  March,  [886,  he  returned  to  the 
Sanguinists,  and  now  resides  with  them  at  Thompson,  Seneca 
count}-,  Ohio. 

150.  JECKER,  Rev.  Modestus,  was  born,  educated  and 
ordained  in  France;  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Cleve- 
land in  (868,  and  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's,  Toledo, 
where  he  remained  till  January,  [878.  Whilst  at  St.  Joseph's, 
he  also  established  ami,  for  six  months  in  1S71,  had  charge 
of  St.  Louis'  congregation,  East  Toledo,  and  again  for  a  few 
mouths  in  [872.  !!<•  left  the  diocese  in  [878  and  returned  to 
France,  where  he  died  in  December,  1SS5. 

151.  JUNCKER,  Rt.  Rev.  1  lenry  1  );nnian.  was  bom  August 
22,  [809,  at  Fenetrange,  Lorraine,  France;  came  to  America 
in  [831.     He  was  elevated  to  the  priesthood  by   Bishop   Pur- 

II,  March  [6,  [834.  He  was  the  first  priest  ordained  by  that 
prelate.  He  did  pastor.il  duty  al  Holy  Trinity  Church,  Cin- 
cinnati till  [836,  when  he  was  scut  to  St.  John's,  Canton, 
whence   he  attended   Circleville,    Portsmouth,   Zanesville  and 

occasionally  LouiSA  die,  Stark  county,  and  Peru,  1  luron  county. 

In  [837  he  was  appointed  pastor  oi  Chillicothe,  remaining  till 


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1844,  when  he  was  sent  to  Emmanuel  Church,  Dayton.  This 
charge  he  retained  till  his  elevation  to  the  episcopate,  as 
first  Bishop  of  Alton,  April  26,  1857.  Whilst  stationed  at 
Dayton  he  attended  Springfield,  Urbana,  and  during  April 
and  May,  1847,  he  did  missionary  work  among  the  Catholic 
Germans  of  Cleveland.  He  was  a  saintly  priest  and  bishop. 
Died  October  2,  1868. 

152.  JUNG,  Rev.  August,  was  born  in  France,  diocese  of 
Strassburg,  in  1842;  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  December 
21,  1867;  had  charge  of  Randolph  from  July,  1868,  till  Feb- 
ruary, 1869,  when  he  left  the  diocese  and  went  to  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.,  where  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Mary's 
Church.     No  other  record  of  him. 

153.  KAERCHER,  Rev.  Fidelis  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Ersingen,  Baden,  October  21,  1847;  came  to  the  United  States 
in  1852;  ordained  November  1,  1873;  was  in  Franciscan 
Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  1875  to  1881;  had  pastoral  charge 
of  Parma  from  July,  1879,  to  January,  1881;  and  of  Indepen- 
dence from  February,  1879,  to  September,  1880.  During  this 
time  he  was  also  professor  in  St.  Joseph's  College,  Cleveland, 
closed  since  1880.     He  is  now  in  the  diocese  of  Alton,  111. 

154.  KANZLEITER,  Rev.  John  B.  (Jesuit),  was  born 
February  28,  1828,  at  Bierlingen,  Wuerttemberg;  ordained 
January  6,  i860;  came  to  the  United  States,  September,  1869; 
was  stationed  at  St.  Mary's,  Toledo,  as  assistant,  October, 
1869-70,  and  then  as  pastor,  to  March,  1872.  He  then  left 
the  diocese  and  Jesuits  in  1872  and  became  a  secular  priest. 
He  is  now  in  the  diocese  of  Chicago. 

155.  KEARNEY,  Rev.  James  F.,  was  born  in  Frederick 
county,  Md.,  in  1820;  educated  for  the  ministry  at  Cincinnati; 
was  ordained  by  Bishop  Purcell,  December  28,  1844,  and  sent 
to  Steubenville  as  assistant  to  Rev.  James  Conlan.  In  1845 
and  1846  he  attended  East  Liverpool  and  Wellsville  from 
Steubenville,    where  he  was  pastor  at  the  time.      Later  he 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR   CLERGY.  133 

exercised  the  ministry  at  Springfield  and  Hamilton,  O.;  and 

for  man)'  years  at  Urbana,  ().,  where  he  died,  January  10,  187N. 

156.  KlELLEY,  Rev.  Bernard  B.,  was  born  at  Cavan,  Ire- 
land, October  28,  1 845 ;  was  educated  at  Fordham,  St.  Xavier 
Colle<^e,  New  York,  and  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland; 
ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  January  20,  1868.  He  had  the 
following  charges  in  this  diocese:  Cleveland,  St.  Patrick's,  as 
assistant,  February  to  May,  [868;  Niles,  to  May,  1871;  Cleve- 
land, St.  Bridget's,  to  August,  1874;  Summitville,  December, 
[874  to  February,  [876;  Warren,  May,  1876  to  February, 
[877;  Toledo,  St.  Patrick's,  as  assistant,  to  October,  1877; 
St.  Mary's  Corners,  Fulton  count)-,  December,  1880  to  Febru- 
ary, [88l.  Since  last  mentioned  date  he  has  had  no  pastoral 
charge,  During  the  interims  between  his  appointments,  he 
was  in  Cleveland,  Kentucky,  Illinois,  Dakota,  Texas,  Oregon 
and  Mexico. 

157.  KENDELER,  Rev.  ,  was  in  the  diocese  with   the 

Sanguinists   at   Glandorf,    Putnam    count)-,  for   a  tew    months 
during  [856,  as  assistant.      No  other  record  of  him. 

15N.  KENNEDY,  Rev.  Edward  (Basilian),  was  born  in 
Toronto,  Canada,  in  [846;  educated  at  St.  Michael's  Colle 
Toronto;  ordained  at  London,  Ont.,  by  Bishop  Walsh,  May 
l,  [872.  Was  at  Louisville,  Stark  count)-,  as  one  <'f  the  pro- 
fessors of  St.  Louis'  College,  between  [871-73,  and  then 
returned  to  Canada.      Died  at  Toronto,  June  24,   1876. 

159.  KENNEDY,  Revs  Michael,  a  native  of  Ireland,  was 
ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  July,  [852.  His  first  appointment, 
till  December,  [852,  was  as  assistant  to  Rev.  James  Mona- 
li.m,  pastor  at   Dungannon.     He  also  attended  Summitville, 

in     [853.      lie    was    pastor   of  St.    John'-..    Canton,    from    July, 
[853,  till  November,  1854,  when  In-  was  sent  to  St.  Patricks, 
veland,  to  take  charge   of  th.it    con  ion   during  the 

absence  of  Very  Rev.  Jam      1    mlan,  till    September,    [8 

Meanwhile  he  continued  the  erection  of  St.    Patricks  Church. 


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on  Whitman  street,  begun  by  Father  Conlan.  During  this 
time  he  also  attended  St.  Patrick's,  Rockport,  and  Berea,  1854. 
Left  the  diocese  and  was  received  into  that  of  Cincinnati. 
His  last  charge  there  was  as  pastor  at  Chillicothe.  He  died 
at  St.  John's  Hospital,  Cincinnati,  January  13,  1864.  His 
remains  repose  in  Sts.  Peter  and  Paul's  Cemetery,  Sandusky. 

160.  KERCKHOFF,  Rev.  Hermann  (Jesuit),  a  native  of 
Hanover,  was  born  at  Haren-Ems,  June  26,  1836.  He  was 
educated  for  the  priesthood  at  Muenster  and  Maria-Laach; 
ordained  at  Osnabrueck  for  the  Jesuits,  by  Mgr.  Melchers, 
July  16,  1861.  Till  1872  he  exercised  the  ministry  in  Europe. 
Then  he  came  to  the  United  States,  and  was  assigned  various 
positions  by  his  superiors.  August,  1886,  he  was  sent  to 
Cleveland  as  one  of  the  professors  at  St.  Ignatius'  College. 
Left  Cleveland,  September,  1887.  Is  now  at  Canisius  College, 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

161.  KLEEKAM,  Rev.  Sebastian  (Franciscan),  was  born 
at  Elbroch,  diocese  of  Paderborn,  Germany,  April  25,  1844; 
ordained  August  12,  1869;  belonged  to  Franciscan  Monastery, 
Cleveland,  from  1869  to  1871,  meanwhile  (1870)  attending 
Independence  and  Parma.  Died  at  Sherman,  Mo.,' September 
13-  1875. 

162.  KOCKEROLS,  Rev.  William  (Jesuit),  was  born  at 
Wuerm,  diocese  of  Cologne,  August  3,  1824;  entered  the 
Society  of  Jesus,  October  30,  1855,  and  made  the  regular 
course  of  studies  for  the  ministry  under  direction  of  the 
Jesuits;  was  ordained  priest  at  Maria  Laach  by  Archbishop 
Melchers,  of  Cologne,  September  14,  1868;  came  to  this 
country  in  August,  1869,  and  was  a  member  of  the  community 
of  Jesuit  Fathers  at  Buffalo,  whence  he  attended  a  number  of 
missions,  till  February,  1875,  when  he  was  appointed  pastor 
of  St.  Mary's,  Toledo.  This  position  he  held  till  June,  1886. 
Whilst  holding  this  latter  charge  he  directed  the  building  of 
the  present,  large  and  well-appointed  school,  also  of  the  pas- 
toral residence,  both  very  fine  brick  buildings.     From  Toledo 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  135 

he  was  sent  to  Prairie-du-Chien,  Wis.,    where  he   is   now    sta- 
tioned. 

163.  KOEHN,  Rev.  John,  was  born  in  Niederlahnstein, 
Nassau-Limburg,  September  10,  1831,  ordained  by  Bishop 
Rappe,  June  24,  1866;  had  charge  of  the  missions  of  Marble- 
head,  La  Prairie  and  Toussaint,  also  of  Port  Clinton,  where 
he  resided  from  July,  1866  to  March,  1868.  From  December, 
1868,  to  February,  1869,  he  was  pastor  of  Kellcy's  Island  ; 
then  received  the  pastorate  of  Randolph,  where  he  remained 
till  March,  1875.  His  next  charge  was  St  Marx's,  Massillon, 
March  20,  1875,  to  March  1,  1879,  during  which  time  he  began 
the  present  magnificent  church.  His  health  failing  he  was 
unable  to  carry  the  burden  of  attending  so  large  a  congre- 
gation as  St.  Mary's,  hence  he  resigned  on  last  mentioned 
date  (March,  [879)  and  went  to  Charity  Hospital,  Cleveland, 
where  he  rallied  sufficiently,  he  thought,  to  resume  pastoral 
work.  Bishop  Gilmour  then  appointed  him  pastor  of  Bis- 
marck (Sherman),  April,  1879,  but  in  October  of  same  year 
he  was  again  obliged  to  resign  because  of  his  shattered  health. 
After  a  lingering  illness  and  much  suffering  he  died  at  Bis- 
marck, January  24,  1880.  There  also  his  remains  repose. 
father  Koehn  was  a  hard-working,  self-sacrificing  priest. 

164.  KOENEN,  Rev.  NT.,  was  assistant  to  Rev.  F.  Wester- 
holt  at  Defiance  for  some  months,  between  1 S56  and  1857. 
He  also  attended  Providence  during  this  time.  He  left  the 
diocese  in  1857. 

165.  KOERLING,  Rev.  Ignatiu  ,  a  native  of  West- 
phalia, was  born  at  Altenbmivn,  February  l  I,  [838.  He  was 
educated  in  Europe,  by  and  for  the  Jesuits,  and  for  them 
ordained  at  Maria-Laach,  by  Mgr.  Melchers.  Sept.  [3,  [868. 
Two  years  later  In-  was  sent  to  the  United  States,  doing  pas- 
toral duty  in  New  York  city  and  Buffalo.  In  September, 
1S71,  he  was  appointed  assistant  at  St.  Mary's,  Toledo,  remain- 
ing there  till  [881,  when  he  was  given  a  like  position  at  St. 
Mary's,  Cleveland.     August,  [883,  he  was  transferred  to  Wis- 


136  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

consin,  as  professor  at  the  Jesuit  College  in  Prairie-de-Chien, 
remaining  till  July,  1886;  then  to  Mankato,  July  to  Septem- 
ber, 1886.  On  last  mentioned  date  he  was  again  sent  to 
Toledo,  as  assistant  at  St  Mary's,  where  he  remained  till  July, 
1887.  St.  Mary's,  Cleveland,  as  assistant,  was  his  next 
appointment,  July,  1887,  to  August,  1888;  then  again  St.  Mary's, 
Toledo,  as  assistant,  with  pastoral  charge  of  Sylvania.  One 
month  later  he  was  transferred  to  Buffalo,  where  he  now  resides. 

166.  KOHLER,  Rev.  Peter,  a  Swiss,  studied  for  a  time 
with  the  Sanguinists  at  Thompson,  and  was  there  ordained 
deacon  by  Bishop  Purcell,  in  1844.  Shortly  after  this  he 
returned  to  Switzerland,  but  came  back  within  a  year.  Nearly 
eleven  years  after  his  ordination  as  deacon,  Bishop  Rappe 
received  him  and  ordained  him  a  priest,  December  31,  1854. 
He  was  sent  to  Shelby  Settlement  as  assistant;  was  next 
stationed  at  Navarre,  from  which  place  he  attended  Canal 
Fulton  and  Doylestown.  In  the  summer  of  1855  he  left  the 
diocese.     No  other  record  of  him. 

167.  KOLOPP,  Rev.  Hyacinthe  N.  M.,  was  born  at 
Abreschwiller,  diocese  of  Nancy,  Lorraine,  May  7,  1850.  He 
made  part  of  his  ecclesiastical  studies  at  Fenetrange  and 
Pont-a-Mousson,  France,  and  completed  them  at  St.  Mary's 
Seminary,  Cleveland,  having  been  received  in  1870  on  the 
recommendation  of  his  uncle,  Rev.  Peter  Kolopp,  as  a  student 
for  this  diocese.  August  8,  1874,  he  was  ordained  by 
Bishop  Gilmour.  His  first  appointment  was  Elmore,  whence 
he  attended  the  missions  of  Genoa,  Oak  Harbor  and  VVood- 
ville.  December,  1875,  he  was  appointed  to  take  charge 
of  Antwerp,  with  the  missions  of  Cecil,  Delaware  Bend  and 
Junction,  besides  a  number  of  stations,  some  of  which  have 
since  developed  into  missions.  Providence,  Lucas  county, 
was  his  next  pastoral  charge,  from  April  10,  1877,  to  August, 
1883.  From  Providence  he  attended  Bowling  Green,  where 
he  secured  several  lots  on  which,  under  his  direction,  the 
present  church  was  built.  August  19,  1883,  he  assumed 
charge  of  his  last  appointment,  Holy  Trinity  congregation, 


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61 


Bucyrus,  where  the  beautiful  church,  completed  in  the  fall  of 
1886,  was  erected  during  his  pastorate.  He  died  at  Bucyrus, 
March  22,  18S7. 

168.  KOLOi'i",    Rev.    Peter,    was    born    at    Heinrichsdorf, 

Lorraine,  France,  July  4,  1834;  made  his  ecclesiastical  studies 
in  Phalsburg,  Lorraine;  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Alton 
by  Bishop  Juncker,  and  by  him  ordained  July  14,  1858;  was 
received  into  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  October,  1864;  and 
sent  as  assistant  to  Rev.  L.  Hoffer,  Louisville,  Ohio,  where  he 
remained  till  June,  1866.  He  was  then,  successively,  pastor 
of  Doylestown,  June,  1866,  to  August,  1870;  Six  Mile  Woods 
till  October,  1875;  St.  Peter's,  Norwalk,  till  June,  188 1,  and 
Avon  till  May,  1883.  After  an  illness  of  nearly  eight  months 
he  died  at  St.  Vincent's  Hospital,  Toledo,  November  20,  1883. 

169.  KRAMER,  Rev.  J.  J.,  was  born,  educated  and  ordained 
in  Alsace;  was  received  into  this  diocese  in  1853,  and  sent  as 
assistant  to  Rev.  J.  H.  Luhr,  at  St.  Peter's  Cleveland. 
November,  1N54,  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Mary's, 
Cleveland,  and  remained  in  charge  till  May,  1856,  when  he 
was  sent  to  Dungannon.  This  charge  he  held  till  he  left  the 
diocese,  Jul}  of  same  year.  He  was  then  received  into  the 
diocese  of  Alton.  Later  he  returned  to  Europe,  where  he 
died  in    [882. 

170.  KRAMER,  Rev.  Maria  Anton  (Sanguinist),  was  born 
at  Hirschbach,  Wuerttemberg,  February  3,  [817;  came  to  the 
United  States,  October,  [852,  and  was  ordained  at  New  Riegel 
for  the  Sanguinists  by  Bishop  Rappe,  November  21,  [853; 
did  pastoral  work  in  this  dio  .  off  and  on,  between  [855 
and  [877,  at  Avon,  French  Creek,  Thompson,  New  Riegel 
and  Glandorf.  At  other  times  he  was  on  missions  in  the 
dioceses  of  Cincinnati  and  Fort  Wayne.  His  last  charge  in 
this  di(  was  at  Thompson,  from  December,  1874,  till  his 
death,  Februar)   17,  [877. 

171.  Krasney,  Rev.  Anthony,  was  born,  educated  and 
ordained  in  Bohemia;  came  to  this  country  in  1857.  and  was 


138  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

stationed  for  a  while  in  New  York  city;  was  received  into 
this  diocese  in  May,  1858,  and  from  St.  Peter's,  Cleveland, 
attended  Independence  till  1862,  when  he  was  appointed  first 
pastor  of  St.  Joseph's,  on  Woodland  Avenue.  There  he 
remained  in  charge  till  October,  1867,  when  he  was  appointed 
the  first  pastor  of  St.  Wencelas'  (Bohemian)  congregation, 
Cleveland,  then  organized  by  Bishop  Rappe.  Because  of  ill 
health  he  resigned  this  charge,  October,  1869,  and  died  at 
Charity  Hospital,  Cleveland,  March  3,  1870.  He  was  a  fine 
German  and  Bohemian  scholar.  He  had  been  in  bad  health 
for  some  years  previous  to  his  death,  and  much  of  his  sickness 
could  be  traced  to  the  unkind  treatment  he  received  from  his 
countrymen  of  St.  Wenceslas'  congregation,  who  embittered 
his  life  by  their  un-Catholic  spirit;  also  to  the  severity  of 
prison  life  he  endured  in  Austria  from  1849  to  l857  as  a  Pris_ 
oner  of  war,  because  of  the  part  he  took  in  the  "Czech  move- 
ment "  in  1848. 

172.  KREIDLER,  Rev.  John  B.  (Jesuit),  a  native  of  Wuert- 
temberg,  was  born  at  Horb,  June  8,  1848.  He  was  educated 
by  and  for  the  Jesuits,  and  for  them  ordained  by  Bishop 
Brown,  at  Salpoint,  England,  September  21,  1873.  For  three 
years  he  was  on  the  mission  in  England;  came  to  the  United 
States  in  August,  1876,  and  was  sent  to  Burlington,  Iowa, 
where  he  remained  till  September,  1881.  His  next  appoint- 
ment was  as  assistant  at  St.  Mary's,  Toledo,  till  August,  1888. 
During  this  time  he  also  had  pastoral  charge  of  the  mission 
of  Sylvania.  He  now  resides  at  Burlington,  Iowa,  doing  pas- 
toral duty  where  he  had  been  before  thus  engaged. 

173.  KREUSCH,  Rev.  Matthias  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at 
Longwich,  near  Schweich,  diocese  of  Treves,  Prussia,  October 
7,  1820;  came  to  the  United  States,  December,  1843;  was 
ordained  for  the  Sanguinists  by  Bishop  Purcell,  June  10,  1845; 
had  pastoral  charge  of  the  Catholic  Germans  of  Cleveland, 
about  1848;  attended  Avon  from  July,  1849  to  July,  1850,  and 
again  from  July  to  December,  1856;  was  also  at  New  Riegel, 
Thompson  and  Glandorf,   1856-65.     Then,  till   his  death,   he 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  139 

was  on  d  uty  in  other  dioceses  where  the  Sanguinists  had 
charge  of  congregations.  In  1859  he  attended  Lima,  where 
he  built  the  first  church.  He  died  near  Minster,  O.,  of  cholera 
morbus,  July  21,  1874.  "Father  Matthias,"  as  he  was  called, 
did  much  good  for  religion.  He  was  a  saintly  priest,  a  man 
without  guile. 

174.  KREUSCH,  Rev.  John  Peter,  brother  to  Rev.  M. 
Kreusch,  was  born  at  Longwich,  diocese  of  Treves,  Prussia, 
December  2,  18 18.  He  received  a  common  school  education 
in  his  native  city,  but  feeling  himself  called  to  the  priesthood 
he  made  his  preparatory  studies  at  Castle  Loewenburg,  and  in 
Switzerland.  About  1844  he  came  to  the  United  States. 
Bishop  Purcell  sent  him  to  the  Sanguinist  Fathers,  at  Thomp- 
son, where  he  continued  his  ecclesiastical  studies  for  a  time. 
When  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  was  erected  in  1847  he  sought 
and  received  adoption  from  Bishop  Rappe  as  a  seminarist. 
He  was  ordained  November  19,  1848,  after  finishing  his  theo- 
logical course  in  the  first  diocesan  seminary,  then  in  the  rear 
of  the  Bishop's  residence  on  Bond  street.  He  had  the  follow- 
ing pastoral  charges  in  this  diocese,  between  the  time  of  his 
ordination  and  1854;  Cleveland,  St.  Mary's  on  the  Flats, 
1S4S-51  ;  French  Creek  as  resident  pastor,  with  Sheffield  as 
a  mission,  1851-52;  Shelby  Settlement,  with  charge  of  the 
missions  of  Crestline,  Bucyrus,  Galion,  Loudonville,  New 
Washington  and  Mansfield,  1S52-54.  In  1S54I1C  was  received 
into  the  diocese  of  Vincennes  where  he  remained  about  four 
years.  lie  then  was  again  received  by  Bishop  Rappe,  who 
gave  him  pastoral  charge  of  Dungannon,  where  he  remained 
till  [859,1  when  he  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Wheeling 
by  Bishop  Whelan.  He:  was  engaged  in  parochial  work  in 
the  city  of  Win-cling  from   the   time  of  his  entry  into  the  dio- 

•    until    about    [886,    when   owing    to   age    and    illness    he 

retired  from  the  ministry  to  seek  rest  and  medical  care.  For 
over  twenty-five  years  In-  had  charge  of  St.  Alphonsus'  church. 
Wheeling.  May  11,  [888,  he  died  full  of  years  and  merit. 
In  order  to  aid  his  fellow-priests  in  obtaining  pure  altar  wine 
he  devoted  his  savings  and  spare  time  to  aw  extensive  vim-- 


i4o  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

yard  he  had  established  near  Wheeling.  Though  he  suc- 
ceeded in  supplying  pure  altar  wine,  the  project  ended  in 
financial  failure,  a  short  time  before  he  died. 

175.  KUEHR,  Rev.  Ferdinand,  D.  D.,  was  born  at  Eslohe, 
Prussia,  August  25,  1806;  made  his  studies  for  the  priesthood 
at  the  Propaganda,  Rome,  and  was  there  ordained  by  Cardi- 
nal Reisach,  August  10,  1830.  He  was  stationed  at  St.  John's 
Canton,  as  temporary  pastor,  November,  1837,  to  January, 
1838.  He  was  pastor  of  St.  Mary's  Church,  Covington,  from 
1841  to  November  20,  1870,  the  date  of  his  death. 

176.  KUEMIN,  Rev.  Charles,  a  Swiss,  was  born  in  1802. 
He  was  in  this  diocese  from  May,  1865,  till  February  27,  1867, 
as  pastor  of  Kelley's  Island,  with  charge  of  Put-in-Bay  as  a 
mission.  Before  coming  here  he  served  seven  years  in  the 
diocese  of  Buffalo,  and  six  years  in  that  of  Chicago.  In  1867 
he  returned  to  his  native  country,  Switzerland,  and  died  the 
following  year  in  the  hospital  at  Chur,  aged  66. 

177.  KUHNMUENCH,  Rev.  Peter  (Sanguinist),  was  born 
at  Nerbach,  Baden,  October  31,  1843;  educated  for  the  min- 
istry at  Bischofsheim,  Baden,  and  at  Carthagena,  Mercer 
county,  O.;  ordained  at  Cincinnati  for  the  Sanguinists  by 
Archbishop  Purcell,  June  24,  1876;  was  in  this  diocese  from 
July,  1881,  to  September  8,  1884,  as  assistant  at  New  Riegel. 
He  is  now  stationed  in -the  diocese  of  Cincinnati. 

178.  KUNKLER,  V.  Rev.  Andrew  (Sanguinist),  was  born 
at  Glotterthal,  Baden,  November  25,  1825;  in  the  United 
States  since  1843;  ordained  at  New  Riegel  for  the  Sanguinists 
by  Bishop  Rappe,  February  23,  1848.  The  only  appointment 
he  held  in  this  diocese  was  St.  John's,  Glandorf,  from  1848  to 
1849,  ar>d  assistant  at  St.  Michael's  Thompson,  from  April  to 
September,  1857.  From  1858  to  1874  he  was  Provincial  of  the 
Sanguinists  in  this  country.  He  is  at  present  stationed  in 
Kansas. 

179.  Lais,  Rev.  Joseph,  was  born  at  Griessheim,  Baden, 
September  29,    1829.     After  devoting  several  years  to  studies 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  141 

under  the  Benedictines  in  Switzerland  he  came  to  America, 
March,  1852,  and  entered  the  Cleveland  Diocesan  Seminary. 
He  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  July  8,  1855.  His  first 
mission  was  St.  Mary's,  Massillon,  of  which  he  had  charge 
from  1855  to  1858.  Then  he  was  pastor  of  Navarre  (Bethle- 
hem), 1859-60;  of  Doylestown,  with  charge  of  Canal  Fulton 
and  French  Settlement  as  missions,  (1860-62).  In  1862  he- 
was  appointed  resident  pastor  of  Canal  Fulton,  attending 
several  missions  from  this  place.  There  he  remained  till  1867 
when  he  again  received  the  pastorate  of  St.  Mary's,  Massillon, 
retaining  this  appointment  till  he  died,  February  5,  1875. 
His  remains  are  buried  in  St.  Mary's  Cemetery,  Massillon. 
Father  Lais  took  special  interesjt  in  Catholic  schools.  Whilst 
at  Massillon  he  erected  the  present  handsome  and  commo- 
dious school,  lie  was  ever  faithful  to  his  sacerdotal  duties, 
and  leaves  the  record  of  a  devoted  and  true  priest. 

180.  LANGEVIN,  Rev.  Alfred,  a  Canadian,  was  born  at  St. 
Pie,  P.  Q.,  April  1,  1861 ;  educated  for  the  priesthood  at  St. 
Hyacinth  and  Montreal,  Canada;  ordained  at  St.  Albans,  Vt., 
by  Bishop  de  Goesbriand  for  the  diocese  of  Burlington,  June 
22,  [884.  Was  on  the  mission  in  Vermont  till  January,  [888, 
when  he  came  to  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  Bishop  Gilmour 
sent  him  to  Dungannon,  where  he  remained  but  four  weeks, 
when    he  returned   to  Vermont    where  he  is   now   engaged    in 

ioral  work  at    East   Rutland. 

1  's  1 .  Laux,  Rev.  Alphonse  (Sanguinist  ,  was  horn  Sep- 
tember 11,  [835,  in  the  town  of  Stolzenberg,  Grand-Duchy  of 
Luxemburg,  lie  came  to  this  country  in  1859,  ant'  was 
ordained  at  Cincinnati  for  the  Sanguinists  by  Archbishop 
Purcell,  November  7.  [861.  From  [862  to  [863  he  was  sta- 
tioned at  New  Riegel,  whence  he  attended  Berwick,  St.  Pat- 
rick's   Settlement,    McCutchenville  and    Crawfordsville.      In 

•\  he  attended  Bismarck  (Sherman  from  Thompson.  In 
1869  In-  was  appointed  pastor  of  New  Riegel.  July,  1875, 
whilst  directing  tin-  building  of  the  present  beautiful  church 
at  New  Riegel,    begun  during  hi-  pastorate    he  tell  and  broke 


i42  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

one  of  his  legs,  and  has  since  been  more  or  less  unable  to  do 
pastoral  duty.  From  1877  to  February,  1880,  he' assisted  the 
pastor  of  Glandorf.  Since  then  he  has  held  the  position  of 
chaplain  in  various  hospitals  and  asylums.  He  is  now  sta- 
tioned at  Jersey  City,  N.  J.,  charged  with  a  similar  position. 

182.  LEDDY,  Rev.  James  H.,  was  born  at  Newark,  N.  J., 
May  14,  1837;  made  his  ecclesiastical  studies  at  St.  Mary's 
College,  Wilmington,  Del.,  and  Seton  Hall,  N.  J.  He  was 
ordained  for  the  diocese  of  Buffalo  by  Bishop  Timon,  March 
18,  1863.  He  was  in  this  diocese  between  1876  and  1877 — at 
the  Cathedral  for  two  months  as  assistant;  then  pastor  for 
four  months  at  Van  Wert,  when  he  returned  to  the  diocese  of 
Buffalo,  where  he  has  been  since. 

183.  LEITER,  Rev.  Anselm  (Jesuit),  was  born  January  20, 
1826,  at  Ulznach,  Canton  St.  Gallen,  Switzerland;  ordained 
September  15,  1855;  in  the  United  States  since  September, 
1880;  was  local  Superior  of  the  Jesuits  at  Toledo  from  Sep- 
tember, 1884  to  May,  1885.  He  is  now  in  Prairie-du-Chien, 
Wisconsin. 

184.  LEWANDOWSKI,  Rev.  Vincent,  a  native  of  Gralewo- 
Posen,  Austria,  was  born  May  31,  1841.  He  made  his  collegi- 
ate studies  in  the  gymnasium  of  the  city  of  Posen,  and  his 
theological  course  with  the  Franciscans,  in  the  same  city,  for 
whose  Order  he  was  ordained,  October  30,  1864.  He  became 
a  secular  priest,  and  was  in  this  diocese  as  pastor  of  St.  Hed- 
wig's  (Polish)  congregation,  Toledo,  from  October,  1875,  till 
Jul}-,  1885,  when  he  left  the  diocese.  From  St.  Hedwig's  he 
attended  St.  Anthony's  congregation,  Toledo,  which  he 
organized,  and  whose  church  was  built  under  his  direction. 
This  latter  charge  he  held  from  November,  1882,  till  August, 
1884.      He  is  now  stationed  in  the  diocese  of  Milwaukee. 

185.  LlNDESMITH,  Rev.  Fdward  W.  J.,  a  native  of  Ohio, 
was  born  in  Center  township,  Columbiana  county,  September 
7,  1827.     He  made  his  studies  for  the  ministry  at  St-  Mary's 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  143 

Seminary,  Cleveland,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  July 
8,  1 S 5 5 .  Doylestown  was  his  first  pastoral  charge,  together 
with  the  missions  of  Canal  Fulton,  French  Settlement  and 
Marshallville,  July,  1855,  to  February,  1858.  St.  John's,  Can- 
ton, was  his  next  appointment,  with  New  Berlin  as  a  mission, 
February,  1858,  to  October,  1868.  From  this  date  to  May, 
1872,  he  was  resident  pastor  of  Alliance,  meanwhile  attending 
Leetonia.  May,  1872,  he  was  appointed  first  resident  pastor  of 
Leetonia.  There  he  resided  till  July,  1880,  when  he  accepted 
a  chaplaincy  in  the  U.  S.  Army,  Bishop  Gilmour  having 
granted  him  temporary  leave  of  absence  from  the  diocese  for 
the  purpose.      Mis  residence  is  at  Fort  Keogh,  Montana. 

[86.  LOCHERT,  Rev.  Gabriel  M.,  was  born,  18 10,  at 
Niederlauterbach,  Alsace;  educated  and  ordained  in  Alsace, 
France.  He  came  to  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  in  the  spring 
of  1859,  and  was  appointed  first  resident  pastor  of  Navarre 
Bethlehem),  where  after  a  brief  illness  he  died  July  13,  of 
the  same  year. 

187.  LUDWIG,  Rev.  Frederick  C,  a  native  of  the  Duchy 
of  Braunschweig,  Germany,  was  born  of  Protestant  parents 
in  tin-  town  of  Wolfenbuettel,  January  13,  1823.  After  his 
entry  into  the  Church  he  made  his  studies  for  the  priesthood 
at  the  seminaries  of  St.  Mary's,  Cleveland,  and  St.  Sulpice, 
Paris  llr  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  July  3,  1864. 
Louisville  was  his  first  appointment,  August  to  October, 
[864.  Mr  then,  successively,  had  pastoral  charge  of  the  fol- 
lowing placi  Dungannon,  October,  1864,  to  February, 
[867;  Peru,  to  March,  [868;  Rockport  and  Independence,  to 
May,  [869;  Shelby  Settlement,  to  December,  [869.  Me  then 
became  sick  and  was  a  pensioner  of  the  Infirm  Priest's  Fund 
from  January,  [870,  to  October,  [882.  He  was  then  assigned 
tin-  pastorate  of  St.  Peter's,  Norwalk,  where  he  remained  only 
till  January,  [883.  Then  lu-  was  appointed  assistant  at  St 
Stephen's,  Cleveland,   February  to  July.  [883,   when  he  was 

nn   on  the   "sick-list"  till  December,  [886.     At  last  men- 
tioned date  he  left  the  dii 


i44  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

1 88.  LUHR,  Very  Rev.  John  Henry,  was  born  at  Stein- 
feld,  Oldenburg,  diocese  of  Muenster,  April  21,  1808,  and  was 
ordained  to  the  priesthood  September  21,  1831.  In  1844  he 
was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati,  at  that  time  com- 
prising the  state  of  Ohio.  After  a  short  stay  in  Cincinnati, 
the  pastorate  of  St.  John's,  Canton,  was  assigned  him.  This 
position  he  held  from  October,  1844.  till  the  organization,  by 
him,  of  St.  Peter's  congregation,  Canton,  June,  1845.  During 
1848  he. also  attended  Randolph  for  a  few  months.  February, 
1853,  he  was  transferred  from  Canton  to  Cleveland,  where  he 
organized  St.  Peter's  congregation,  whose  first  school  and 
present  church  were  built  under  his  direction.  He  was  pastor 
of  the  last  mentioned  congregation  till  January,  1868,  when 
he  left  the  diocese  and  returned  to  Cincinnati,  where  he  was 
appointed  pastor  of  St.  Augustine's.  This  position  he  held 
till  his  death,  August  2,  1872.  Whilst  at  Canton  he  also  had 
charge  of  Massillon  (where  he  built  the  first  church),  Navarre 
and  New  Berlin.  He  was  one  of  Bishop  Rappe's  Vicars- 
general  from  1854  to  1868.  Father  Luhr  was  a  faithful  priest, 
full  of  zeal,  and  an  earnest  worker  in  the  cause  of  religion. 

189.  MGALEER,  Rev.  Michael,  born  in  County  Tyrone, 
Ireland,  March  4,  1811,  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Purcell, 
November  23,  1837;  did  pastoral  work  at  Canton,  Navarre  and 
Dungannon,  between  1837  and  1840.  He  then  left  Ohio  and 
went  to  the  diocese  of  Nashville  with  Bishop  Miles,  and  was 
stationed  at  Memphis,  Tenn.,  where  he  remained  some  years. 
Later  he  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  New  York  ;  was 
appointed  pastor  of  St.  Columba's,  New  York  city,  where  he 
died,  February  22,  1 881. 

190.  MCCAFFREY,  Rev.  Patrick,  was  born  in  New  York 
state,  October,  1841  ;  made  his  preparatory  course  of  studies 
in  Cleveland,  Louisville,  Ohio,  and  finished  same  in  St.  Mary's 
Seminary,  Cleveland,  where,  July  17,  1870,  he  was  ordained 
for  this  diocese  by  Bishop  Mullen,  of  Erie.  His  first  appoint- 
ment was  St.  Ann's,  Briar  Hill,  from  which  place  he  attended 
as  missions  Girard  and  Struthers.  In  the  latter  place,  as  also 
at  Briar  Hill,  he  built  the  present  churches.     Being  of  delicate 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  145 

health,  he  was  obliged,  with  great  reluctance,  to  resign  his 
charge,  April,  1872.  He  then  went  to  live  with  his  parents  at 
Toledo,  to  receive  the  care  and  attention  he  so  much  needed. 
Every  effort  was  made  to  restore  health  but  without  avail. 
Though  he  said  Mass,  and  occasionally  preached  in  St.  Pat- 
rick's and  St.  Francis  de  Sales'  churches,  Toledo,  he  was 
unable  to  do  any  serious  or  continued  pastoral  duty.  For 
two  years  after  leaving  Briar  Hill,  he  suffered  greatly,  but 
patiently,  till  death's  summons  came,  April  7,  1874.  His 
remains  are  buried  at  Toledo. 

191.  McGaxn,  Rev.  Francis,  was  born,  1823,  in  County 
Roscommon,  Ireland;  came  to  America  in  1837;  was  received 
as  a  student  by  Bishop  Rappe  in  1848,  and  ordained  by  him 
September  8,  1850.  He  was  at  once  appointed  pastor  of 
St.  Vincent's,  Akron,  where  he  remained  till  August,  1855, 
meanwhile  attending  Youngstown  and  .Ravenna  (1854-55). 
He  established  a  parochial  school  at  Akron.  Bishop  Rappe 
then  recalled  him  to  Cleveland,  directing  him  to  attend 
Rockport,  Berea  and  Olmsted.  Unwilling  to  accept  this 
appointment  he  left  the  diocese,  and  was  received  by  Bishop 
(  >'Regan,  of  Chicago,  under  whose  jurisdiction  he  remained 
about  two  years.  Next  he  was  in  the  diocese  of  Milwaukee, 
where,  as  pastor  of  Mineral  Point,  Wis.,  he  died,  September 
[8,   1S70. 

[92.  McGLONE,  Rev.  J.  B.,  was  born  in  the  parish  of 
Glenfarn,  diocese  of  Kilmore,  Ireland,  December  23,  [853; 
came  with  his  relatives  some  years  later  to  America,  anil  for 
a    time    lived     in     the    diocese    of  Providence.      lie    made    his 

lesiastical  studies  at  St.  Michael's  college,  Toronto,  ami 
Holy  Angels' Seminary,  near  Niagara  Falls;  was  received  by 
Bishop  Gilmour  as  a  student  for  this  diocese,  January,  188I1 
ami  by  him  ordained  April  1,  [882.  I  lis  first  appointment 
was  a  '.uit  .it  Holy   Rosary  Church,  Cleveland,  where  he 

remained  till  February,  [883.  in  the  following  month  he  was 
sent  to  St.  Columba's,  Youngstown,  as  assistant  to  Father 
Mears      March,    [884,    he    became    seriously  ill.  and  till  his 


146  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

death,  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  August  12,  1884,  was  unable  to  do 
duty. 

193.  McGovERN,  Rev.  Francis,  a  native  of  parish  Kinaw- 
ley,  County  Cavan,  Ireland,  was  born  March  18,  1843.  He 
commenced  his  studies  for  the  priesthood  in  his  native  dio- 
cese of  Kilmore.  In  1868  he  came  to  the  United  States  and 
entered  the  Augustinian  College  at  Villanova,  Delaware 
county,  Pa.,  where  he  remained  about  one  year,  when  he  was 
admitted  to  the  diocesan  seminary  of  Philadelphia.  In  1873 
he  was  received  for  this  diocese  by  Bishop  Gilmour,  who 
ordained  him  June  7th  of  the  same  year,  and  then  stationed 
him  at  the  Cathedral  as  one  of  the  assistants.  This  position 
he  held  for  three  years,  when  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  St. 
Ann's,  Briar  Hill.  Such  he  was  from  June,  1876,  till  his  death 
(after  five  weeks'  illness),  August  28,  1887.  While  stationed 
at  Briar  Hill,  he  also  attended  Mineral  Ridge  and  Lowellville 
as  missions  till  1881. 

194.  McGRADY,  Rev.  John  H.  M.  (Dominican),  born  in 
1799,  of  Irish  parentage,  was  ordained  at  Cincinnati  by  Bishop 
Fenwick  in  1822.  He  had  pastoral  charge  of  Dungannon 
from  November,  1830,  to  February,  1834,  residing  there  as 
first  resident  priest  from  January,  i83i,to  November,  1833. 
From  Dungannon  he  also  attended,  occasionally,  Canal  Fulton. 
Canton  and  Youngstown.  He  died  at  St.  Rose's,  Kentucky, 
December  27,  1838. 

195.  McGRATH,  Rev.  Patrick  C,  born  near  Melleray 
Abbey,  Ireland,  was  ordained  for  the  diocese  of  Erie  by 
Bishop  Mullen  in  1869;  was  received  into  the  diocese  of 
Rochester  in  1870,  where  he  remained  till  1878,  when  Bishop 
Gilmour  received  him.  He  was  sent  to  St.  Mary's,  Tiffin,  as 
assistant  to  Rev.  M.  Healy;  remained  but  a  few  months  when 
he  left  the  diocese  and  was  received  by  the  Bishop  of  Peoria, 
whose  subject  he  was  till  death,  July  21,  1882.  He  died  at 
St.  Mary's  Hospital,  Milwaukee,  where  he  had  gone  for  medi- 
cal treatment. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  147 

196.  McLaughlin,  Rev.  Peter,  a  native  of  Ireland,  was 
born  in  1805.  He  was  ordained  at  Cincinnati,  in  1840,  by 
Bishop  Purcell,  and  sent  to  Cleveland  as  its  third  resident 
pastor.  There  he  finished  St.  Mary's  Church  on  the  Flats, 
begun  by  his  predecessor,  Father  O'Dwyer.  From  Cleveland 
he  attended  Avon,  1840-42;  South  Thompson,  Akron,  Cuya- 
hoga Falls,  Ravenna  and  Painesville,  1840-45;  and  Randolph, 
occasionally,  1 841-2.  He  left  Cleveland  in  February,  1846, 
and  went  to  the  diocese  of  Milwaukee,  where  he  remained  a 
short  time.  He  was  then  received  into  the  diocese  of  Brook- 
lyn (1854)  and  later  into  that  of  Portland.  Me.;  died  as  pastor 
of  Bath,  same  diocese,  March  12,  [861,  aged  56  years.  His 
remains  are  buried  in  Calvary  Cemetery,  Portland,  Me. 
"Father  Peter,"  as  he  was  familiarly  called,  was  a  man  of 
medium  height,  stoutly  built,  and  of  a  strong  constitution. 
Every  feature  of  his  countenance  indicated  force  of  character. 
He  was  to  a  great  extent  "a  self-made  man,"  having  had  to 
undergo  almost  insurmountable  difficulties  to  acquire  an  edu- 
cation. A  part  of  his  college  course  he  made  while  watching 
and  attending  to  his  father's  flocks,  using  his  spare  time  in 
studying  latin  and  the  higher  mathematics  His  eloquence 
attracted  great  audiences  of  Catholics  and  Protestants.  Many 
times  on  Sundays  and  on  Holydays  the  church  on  the  Flats 
was  tilled  to  overflowing  by  people  who  had  come  from  all 
parts  of  the  city,  to  hear  his  learned  and  impressive  sermons, 
hiiring  his  pastorate  in  Cleveland  he  fought  hard  among  his 
people  against  the  vice  of  intemperance.  lie  established  the 
first  total  abstinence  society  in  Cleveland,  and  thus  succeeded 
in  reclaiming  many  from  a  drunkard's  grave.  In  his  zeal  for 
tin'  elevation  of  his  people  he  went  even  so  tar  as  to  go  to 
their  homes  ami  teach  them  how  t<>  work,  and  to  be  clean  and 
comfortable.  On  occasion  of  public  or  civic  celebrations 
Father  McLaughlin  was  invariably  invited  as  one  of  the 
speakers.  11<-  was  universally  respected  by  the  non-Catholic 
citizens  of  Cleveland  for  his  zeal,  earnestness  ami  blunt  hon- 
ty.  I  lc  was  also  .1  pungent  and  forcible  writer i  as  evi- 
denced l>\  .1  -ciics  of  controversial  articles  he  contributed  t" 
the  Catholic  Telegraphy  of  Cincinnati,  in  [843.     For  a  further 


148  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

account  of  his  pastoral  labors  the  reader  is  referred  to  the 
"Historical  Sketch  of  Early  Catholicity  in  Cleveland,  etc.," 
in  this  work. 

197.  McLov,  Rev.  John  B.,  was  in  this  diocese  as  assistant 
to  Rev  Joseph  F.  Gallagher,  pastor  of  Holy  Name  Church, 
Cleveland,  from  February  to  May,  1883.  No  other  record  of 
him. 

198.  McNAMEE,  Rev. Joseph,  came  to  this  country  from 
Ireland  about  1836.  He  was  ordained  at  Cincinnati,  in  the 
absence  of  Bishop  Purcell,  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Chabrat  of 
Bardstown,  Ky.,  April  8,  1839.  After  a  few  months  of  pastoral 
duty  at  Cincinnati,  he  was  sent  to  St.  Mary's,  Tiffin,  October, 
1839.  There  he  remained  till  July,  1847,  meanwhile,  though 
in  poor  health,  attending  Maumee,  Toledo,  Providence  and  in 
fact  all  the  missions  in  Northwestern  Ohio,  1839-41;  Findlay, 
New  Riegel,  McCutchenville  and  Fremont,  between  1839-43. 
In  July,  1847,  he  left  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati.  He  died  at 
Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  (diocese  of  Providence),  March  28,  1853.  He 
was  a  faithful  aud  zealous  priest. 

199.  MACHEBEUF,  Rt.  Rev.  Joseph  Projectus,  was  born 
in  Riom,  Preu-de-Dome,  diocese  of  Clermont,  France,  August 
11,  18 1 2;  made  his  studies  at  Riom,  at  St.  Sulpice  and  Mont- 
Ferrand,  France.  He  was  ordained  at  Clermont  by  Bishop 
Feron,  December  21,  1836.  After  nearly  three  years  of 
priestly  labor  in  his  native  country  he  came  to  the  diocese  of 
Cincinnati,  August,  1839,  an<^  in  the  following  month  was 
sent  to  Tiffin,  as  assistant  to  Rev.  Joseph  McName,  pastor  of  St. 
Mary's,  attending  Fremont,  (Lower  Sandusky),  Napoleon,  San- 
dusky, Maumee  and  Toledo  as  missions.  He  remained  at  Tiffin 
till  the  end  of  December  of  the  same  year,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  Sandusky  where  he  organized  Holy  Angels'  congre- 
gaj;on  and  built  their  first  (and  present)  church.  From  San- 
dusky he  continued  to  attend  Fremont,  where  he  established 
St.  Ann's  congregation  and  directed  the  building  of  their 
present  church.      He  also  made  pastoral  visits  to  Peru  for  a 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  149 

few  months.  He  was  stationed  at  Sandusky  till  January, 
1851,  when  on  invitation  of  his  life-long  friend,  Bishop 
Lamy,  he  went  to  New  Mexico.  He  labored  there  and  in 
Colorado  on  the  hard  and  scattered  missions  of  these  terri- 
tories, till  his  consecration  as  Vicar  Apostolic  of  Colorado, 
August  15,  [868,  with  residence  at  Denver.  In  1887  he  was 
appointed  first  Bishop  of  Denver,  which  position  he  now  holds. 
October  [8,  [888,  he  contributed  a  very  interesting  article 
to  the  Catholic  Universe,  in  which  he  described  his  eleven 
years'  labor  on  the  mission  in  Northern  Ohio. 

200.  MAESFRANCX,  Rev.  Elias,  was  born  in  Belgium. 
October  5,  1819;  ordained  in  1S46;  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1866;  was  received  into  this  diocese  by  Bishop 
Rappe  in  [867 1  and  sent  to  Delphos  as  assistant  to  Rev.  F. 
Westerholt,  when  after  a  short  stay  he  was  transferred  to  St. 
John's,  Landeck,  Allen  count)-,  as  first  resident  pastor.  This 
charge  he  left  in  April  of  the  following  year,  when  he  was 
received  into  the  diocese  of  Detroit  by  Bishop  Lefevre.  He 
remained  there  a  few  years  and  then  returned  to  his  native 
Country,  where  he  now  resides. 

201.  MARECHAL.     Rev.     John     B.,     born    in    Normandy, 

France,  May  I",  [8l2,  was  ordained  for  the  diocese  of  Arras, 
in  [835  :  was  received  by  Bishop  Rappe  in  August,  1S50,  and 
appointed  pastor  of  Louisville,  which  charge  he  held  from 
September,  [850,  till  September,  1X51,  when  he  was  appointed 
one  of  tin-  professors  in  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland.  He 
w  as  C(  mnected  w  ilh  the  Seminar}-  and  assisted  in  the  parochial 
work    at    the    Cathedral    till  June,   I S 5  5 .       He  then  returned  to 

France  to  assist  the  celebrated  Abbe  Migne,  in  publishing 
the  voluminous  edition  of  the  Fathers  of  the  Church,  a  work 
tor   which  by   his  scholarly   attainments    he    was    eminently 

fitted.       lie    was    a    "  1  >o<  .k-w  ■  n'ln ,"    a  learned  man    and  a  pious 

priest.  By  too  close  application  to  study  in  his  latter  years 
his  sight  became  greatly  impaired,  so  that  he  could  no  longer 
pursue  the  work  he  had  undertaken  in  France,  lie  then 
retired  to  a  convent  as  chaplain,  which  position  he  held  till  he 
died.  I  >ecember,  [882. 


150  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

202.  MARSCHAL,  Rev.  John  A.,  a  native  of  East  Prussia, 
and  for  a  time  a  Dominican,  was  born  at  Allenstein,  in  18 19  ; 
ordained  in  1844;  was  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  from  1866 
to  April,  1867,  as  pastor  of  Maumee.  Bishop  Rappe  then  dis- 
missed him,  and  for  a  number  of  years  he  was  on  the  mission 
elsewhere,  viz.:  in  the  dioceses  of  Chicago  and  Milwaukee. 
October,  1877,  he  was  again  received  into  the  diocese  by 
Bishop  Gilmour,  to  whom  he  was  a  stranger.  He  was 
appointed  pastor  of  the  Poles,  in  Cleveland,  then  worshiping 
in  St.  Mary's,  on  the  Flats.  He  also  attended  Parma  as  a 
mission  from  January,  till  March,  1878;  Brighton,  from 
October,  1877,  to  January,  ,1879,  at  which  last  date  he  left  the 
diocese  and  returned  to  Europe. 

203  MARSHALL,  Rev.  Francis,  was  born  in  Adams 
county,  Pa.;  attended  Chippewa,  near  Doylestown,  in  1827. 
No  other  record  of  him. 

204.  MARTE,  Rev.  Jacob  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at  Rank- 
weil,  diocese  of  Brixen,  Austria,  in  the  year  1843;  came  to  the 
United  States  in  i860;  was  ordained  for  the  Sanguinists, 
June  6,  1866;  was  in  this  diocese  as  pastor  of  New  Cleveland 
from  August,  1872,  to  April,  1873;  assistant  at  Glandorf  till 
July,  1877,  and  as  pastor  of  Big  Springs  (where  he  built  the 
present  church)  till  August,  1882,  when  he  returned  to 
Europe,  where  he  now  is. 

205.  MARTIN,  Rev.  Edward,  was  born  at  Grenoble, 
France,  about  1827.  After  following  the  profession  of  a  law- 
yer for  a  few  years  he  became  a  Franciscan,  went  to  Rome 
and  was  there  ordained  priest.  Later  he  left  the  Franciscan 
Order,  and  in  1863  came  to  America,  when  he  was  received 
into  this  diocese  and  appointed  one  of  the  professors  at  St. 
Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland.  In  1864  he  was  appointed 
pastor  of  Harrisburg,  remaining  till  1865,  when  he  left  the 
diocese. 

206.  Martin,  Rev.  Thomas  H.  (Dominican),  was 
ordained  by  Bishop  Fen  wick  in    1822;  attended  Dungannon 


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and  several  missions  in  Stark  and  Wayne  counties  between 
1825  and  1827,  and  was  the  first  priest  to  visit  (1826)  the 
Catholics  of  Cleveland.  He  was  assistant  pastor  of  St.  John's, 
Canton,  in  1830,  and  again  from  July  to  December,  1835.  He 
died  in  New  York  city  May  10,  1859. 

207.  MAUCLERC,  Rev.  A.  L.,  was  born  about  1820,  and 
ordained  in  France;  received  into  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  in 
1859,  and  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Peter's,  Norwalk,  remaining 
till  the  beginning  of  the  year  1861,  when  for  a  few  months  he 
had  charge  of  St.  Louis'  congregation,  Louisville,  Ohio.  He 
then  left  the  diocese  to  join  the  Society  of  Mary,  near  Dayton, 
where  he  remained  till  1876,  when  he  returned  to  France  (St. 
Remy),  and  died  there  May  6,  1876. 

208.  MAZURET,  Rev.  Peter  Patrick,  was  born  at  Rouse's 
Point,  N.  Y.,  in  1834;  made  his  studies  for  the  priesthood  at 
the  Sulpitian  Seminary,  Montreal,  and  was  ordained  at  Sand- 
wich, Ont,  by  Bishop  Pinsouneault,  March  15,  1863.  He  was 
on  the  mission  in  Canada  till  August,  1864,  and  in  the  diocese 
of  Buffalo  till  1S74,  when  he  was  received  into  the  diocese  of 
Cleveland  and  appointed  one  of  the  Cathedral  assistants. 
March,  1875,  he  was  sent  to  Defiance  to  organize  the  present 
congregation  of  Our  Lady  of  1'npetual  Help.  Under  his 
direction  their  beautiful  church  was  also  begun  and  partly 
finished.  He  left  the  diocese  January  4,  1877,  and  was 
n  reived  into  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati,  where  he  is  at  present. 

209.  Mi  M.i,  Rev.  Aloysius  Maria,  was  born  of  Protestant 
parent-,  at  Zurich,  Switzerland,  March  8,  1840:  entered  the 
Church  when  about  twenty-eight  years  of  age;  made  his 
studies  at  Zurich,  Basle,  Spring  1  fills,  near  Mobile  ,  St.  Mary's 
Seminary,  Cincinnati,  and  St.  Meinrad's,  Ind.;  was  ordained 
for  tin-  diocese  of  Ft.  Wayne  by  Bishop  Luers,  February  27, 
[870.  Came  to  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  September.  [872, 
and  was  sent  as   assistant  to  St.  Joseph's,  Tiffin,  remaining 

till   July,     [873,    when    he    was   appointed    pastor   of  Crestline 

There  he  remained    till    March   j<>.    [874,  when   he    hit    his 


i52  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

charge  and  the  diocese. — July,  1883,  he  assumed  pastoral  duty 
in  the  diocese  of  Leavenworth,  Kansas,  where  he  has  since 
been  engaged  on  the  mission. 

210.  MERTES,  Rev.  Anthony,  was  born  at  Wagenhausen, 
diocese  of  Treves,  Prussia,  January  8,  1826  ;  ordained  at 
Treves  by  Bishop  Arnoldi,  March  23,  1853.  Did  pastoral 
duty  in  his  native  diocese  till  expelled,  in  1876,  by  the  Prus- 
sian government,  under  the  May  laws.  April,  1876,  he  came 
to  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  and  was  appointed  pastor  of  New 
Bavaria.  March,  1879,  he  was  transferred  to  Edgerton,  with 
charge  of  Florence  as  a  mission.  August,  1883,  he  returned 
to  Europe,  where  he  is  now  doing  pastoral  duty. 

211.  MEYER,  Rev.  Maria  Anton  (Sanguinist),  was  born 
at  Aesch,  Canton  Basel,  Switzerland,  February  21,  18 17; 
studied  for  the  ministry  at  Graubuendten,  Switzerland;  was 
ordained  at  Feldkirch,  Austria,  September  8,  1843;  came  to 
Ohio  in  1844,  and  till  1846  had  pastoral  charge  of  the  follow- 
ing places:  Peru,  Thompson,  Tiffin,  New  Reigel  ;  also  atten- 
ded the  Catholic  settlers  in  Huron,  Richland,  Crawford, 
Hancock,  Stark,  Wayne,  Ashland,  Summit,  Lorain,  Lucas 
and  Ottawa  counties,  making  the  entire  journey  on  horse- 
back. In  1846  he  went  with  Bishop  Henni  to  the  diocese  of 
Milwaukee,  but  was  recalled  in  1848,  when  he  was  stationed 
at  Cleveland  for  a  short  time,  with  charge  of  Avon  and 
French  Creek  as  missions.  Bishop  Rappe  then  gave  him 
pastoral  charge  of  the  following  places  in  this  diocese:  Glan- 
dorf  and  Fort  Jennings,  1849-51;  Thompson,  1855,  to  July, 
1856;  Avon,  Juh'  to  December,  1856.  He  was  also  at  New 
Riegel  for  a  while,  but  no  record  of  time  given.  In  1858  he 
left  the  Sanguinists  and  became  a  secular  priest,  and  as  such 
he  has  continued  ever  since,  in  the  dioceses  of  Cincinnati 
and  Covington. 

212.  MILES,  Rt.  Rev.  Richard  P.  (Dominican),  a  native  of 
Maryland,  was  born  May  17,  1791,  and  ordained  in  September, 
1816.  He  had  pastoral  charge  of  St.  John's,  Canton,  between 
1828  and  1830;  was  consecrated  first  Bishop  of  Nashville, 
September  16,  1838.      He  died  February  21,  i860. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  153 

213.  MOENNING,  Rev.  Francis  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Bakum,  diocese  of  Osnabrueck,  Prussia,  December  28,  1837; 
ordained  at  Teutopolis,  111.,  by  Bishop  Juncker,  January  13, 
1867.  He  was  attached  to  the  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleve- 
land, from  Jul\-,  [883,  till  January,  1887.  While  here  he 
assisted  the  secular  clergy,  and  attended  to  the  spiritual 
wants  of  a  number  of  religious  communities.  He  is  now  in 
the  diocese  of  Nashville. 

214.  MOES,  Rev.  Nicholas,  a  native  of  Luxemburg,  was 
born  at  Rous,  February  8,  LS26.  He  was  educated  for  the 
ministry  in  the  Athenaeum  in  the  city  of  Luxemburg  (7  years), 
in  Belgium,  under  direction  of  Jesuits  (2  years),  and  for  two 
years  in  the  Diocesan  Seminary  at  Cleveland.  Bishop  Rappe 
ordained  him  April  16,  1859,  and  assigned  him  the  pastorate 
of  St.  Philip's,  Dungannon,  where  he  remained  till  July,  i860. 
He  was  then  appointed  a  professor  at  the  Cleveland  Sem- 
inary. This  position  he  held  for  one  year,  during  this  time 
also  attending  St.  Louis'  church,  Louisville,  ( ).  July,  1861, 
he  was  made  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's,  Fremont.  September  of 
the  following  year  he  was  transferred  to  St.  Mary's,  Sandusky, 
remaining  till  1864,  when  he  was  sent  to  St.  Nicholas',  Ber- 
wick. September,  1865,  he  was  recalled  to  the  Diocesan 
Seminary  as  professor  of  mental  philosophy.  In  the  spring 
of  1867  Bishop  Rappe  sent  him  to  St.  Francis  de  Saks', 
Tolcd..,  as  assistant,  and  eight  months  later  to  New    Bavaria, 

Poplar  Ridge  ,  as  pa-tor.  In  1873  he  was  again  appointed 
pa-tor  of  St.  Mary's,  Sandusky,  where  under  his  direction  the 
present  very  beautiful  church  was  built  at  a  cost  of  over  $80,- 
000,  with  but  a  comparatively  small  debl  remaining.  For  the 
last  ten  years  his  health  has  been  poor.  Twice  during  this 
time  he  was  obliged  to  give  up  pastoral  work.  Although  his 
two  trips  to  his  native  country,  in  1S7S  and  1SS5.  benefitted 
hi>  health  to  some  extent,  he  never  fully  rallied,  chronic  rheu- 
matism being  one  of  his  altlict  ions.  He  resigned  his  pastorate 
in  October,  [888,  and  returned  to  Luxemburg  on  a  leave  of 
indefinite  absence.  Father  Moes  is  noted  for  his  eloquence 
and  scholarl)  attainments. 


i54  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

215.  Mottriek,  Rev.  Francis,  born  at  Saizerais,  France, 
February  19,  1839,  was  educated  for  the  priesthood  at 
Nancy,  and  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland.  He  was 
ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  January  6,  1865,  when  he  was 
sent  as  assistant  to  Rev.  V.  Arnould  of  Shelby  Settlement. 
August,  1865,  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Harrisburg,  remain- 
ing till  May,  1866,  when  he  was  sent  to  Alliance,  whence  he 
attended  Leetonia.  This  charge  he  held  till  1867,  when  he 
was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Vincennes.  Since  1871  he 
has  been  affiliated  with  the  diocese  of  Columbus. 

216.  MOLLOY,  Rev.  James,  was  born  at  Tullamore,  Kings 
county,  Ireland,  October  13,  1844;  made  his  ecclesiastical 
studies  at  St.  Bridget's  Seminary,  Tullamore,  and  All  Hallow's, 
Dublin;  was  ordained  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  by  Bishop  Feehan, 
November  30,  1867.  He  was  on  the  mission  in  the  diocese  of 
Nashville  till  received  into  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  in  1872; 
was  assistant  at  Sts.  Peter  and  Paul's,  Sandusky,  till  1875; 
then  assistant  at  St.  Columba's  Youngstovvn,  till  July,  1876. 
He  was  next  appointed  pastor  of  Bellevue,  remaining  till  May, 
1879.  Then  he  left  the  diocese,  but  returned  July,  1880, 
when  he  received  the  pastorate  of  Kent.  There  he  remained 
till  August,  1 88 1,  when  he  again  left.  He  is  now  in  the  diocese 
of  Cincinnati. 

2 1 7.  MOLON,  Rev.  Louis,  was  born  in  the  diocese  of  Arras, 
France,  1826;  came  to  Cleveland  as  a  seminarist,  August, 
1850,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe  the  following 
month,  September  8th.  Soon  after  his  ordination  he  was 
sent  to  Tiffin,  as  pastor  of  St.  Mary's,  remaining  till  Septem- 
ber, 1852.  Meanwhile  (January  to  September,  1852)  he  also 
attended  St.  Joseph's  congregation,  same  place.  His  next 
appointment  was  the  pastorate  of  St.  Mary's,  Massillon,  Sep- 
tember, 1852,  to  July,  1855.  During  this  time,  (1854)  he  also 
organized  St.  Joseph's  congregation,  Massillon.  He  was  next 
appointed  Superior  and  professor  of  St.  John's  College,  then 
(1855)  in  existence  in  Ohio  City,  now  West  Side,  Cleveland. 
He  retained  this  charge  but  a  few  months,  as  he  preferred  the 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  155 

active  life  of  a  pastor  to  that  of  a  professor.      Bishop  Rappe 
accordingly    assigned    him    the    pastorate    of    St.    Vincent's, 
Akron,  January,    1856.      In   the   fall   of  the  same  year  he  was 
appointed  pastor  of  Berwick,  remaining  till   November,    1857. 
His  next  charge  was  St.  Ann's,  Fremont,  December,  1857,  to 
July,  [861.      From  December,  1857,  till  i860,  he  also  attended 
St.  Joseph's,  Fremont,  organized  by  Rev.  John   Roos,  in  1857. 
lb-  also  had  charge  of  Port  Clinton,  La   Prairie,   Marblehead 
and     Toussaint,     from     June,     i860,     to    July,     1861.      From 
July,    [861,    till    September,    1863,    he    was    pastor    of    Holy 
Angels',  Sandusky,  and   attended  Kelley's   Island  and   Put-in- 
Bay.      In    the  fall   of  1863    he    visited  his    native   France  on  a 
six    months'   leave    of   absence,  and   on   his   return   succeeded 
Rev.  D.  Tighe  in  the  pastorate  of  St.    Joseph's,    Massillon, 
the    congregation    he    had     organized    in     1854.        There    he 
remained  till  September,  1865,  when   he  was  appointed  pastor 
-»f  St.    Mary's   Flyria,  and  attended  for  a  while   as  missions, 
Norwalk,  North  Amherst,  Vermillion,   Lorain   (Black  River), 
and   several    small   stations.      He  remained   at  Flyria   till    his 
death,    November    16,    1880,    although    he  hail    resigned    his 
charge  in  .March  of  same  year,  owing  to  an  apoplectic  stroke, 
which    disabled    him    from    doing    any    pastoral    work.      His 
remains   are   buried   at   Elyria,   and  near   those   of  a   former 
pastor  of  same  place,  the  Rev.  Francis  Sullivan. 

2l8.  MONAHAN,  Rev.  James,  was  born  in  parish  Tubber- 
curry,  Count)-  Sligo,  Ireland,  December  S,  [822.  He  was 
ordained  in  St.  Mary's  Church,  on  the  Flats,  Cleveland, 
November  19,  [848  the  first  priest  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe. 
From  December,  [848,  to  Jul),  [849,  he  was  stationed  at 
the  Cathedral  (St.  Mary's  Church  on  tin-  Mat.,  Cleveland, 
and  was  then  sent  to  Holy  Angels',  Sandusky.  His  next 
charge  was  Dungannon,  December,  [849,  to  October,  1852, 
with  Summitville,  WellsviHe  and  East  Liverpool  as  missions. 
In  1853  he  was  sent  to  Maumee,  and  in  1854  to  Toledo  as 
assistanl  to  Father  Folej  at  St.  Francis'  Church,  where  he 
remained  till  [855.  His  next  appointment  was  as  assistant 
to  V.  Rev.  James  Conlan,  at   St.   Patrick's,  Cleveland,  where 


156  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF   THE 

he  remained  but  a  short  time  when  he  left  the  diocese.  He 
was  received  by  Archbishop  Purcell  and  sent  on  the  mission 
in  Perry  county.  He  was  also  for  a  time  in  the  diocese  of 
Philadelphia.  In  1863,  after  a  visit  to  Ireland,  he  was  again 
received  by  Bishop  Rappe  and  sent  to  Bellevue,  1863-65;  then 
to  St.  Bridget's,  Cleveland,  1866-70.  His  next  appointments 
were  South  Thompson,  1870-72;  Alliance,  1872-75;  assistant 
at  St.  Francis',  Toledo,  1876-77;  and  assistant  at  Holy  Rosary 
Church,  Cleveland,  1877  to  July,  1880.  Bishop  Gilmour  then 
gave  him  charge  of  St.  Stephen's  congregation,  Niles,  where 
he  remained  from  July,  1880,  till  his  death,  September  6,  1884. 
His  remains  are  buried  in  St.  John's  Cemetery,  Cleveland. 

219.  Montgomery,  Rev.  Charles  P.  (Dominican),  was 
ordained  in  1830;  had  charge  of  missions  in  Columbiana  and 
Stark  counties  between  1837  and  1840.  For  many  years  he 
was  pastor  at  Zanesville,  where,  on  Faster  Monday,  i860,  he 
was  found  dead  in  bed  at  the  pastoral  residence.  He  was  an 
excellent  priest  and  much  beloved  by  his  people. 

220.  MORAN,    Rev.   James,  was  assistant  to   Rev.   Philip 
Foley   at   St.   Francis'  Church,  Toledo,    1848;   attended    Dun- 
gannon  from  autumn  of  1848  to    1849.      No   other   record    of 
him. 

221.  MOURET,  Rev.  Casimir,  was  stationed  at  Doyles- 
town  in  1847  and  1848.  October,  1848,  he  was  appointed 
pastor  of  St.  Vincent's,  Akron,  where  he  resided  till  June, 
1850,  meanwhile  attending  Harrisburg  and  New  Berlin  as 
missions.     No  other  record  of  him. 

222.  MULCAHY,  Rev.  Michael  (Basilian),  was  born  in 
Cork,  Ireland,  December  28,  1840;  educated  at  St.  Michael's 
College,  Toronto  ;  ordained  at  Lyons,  France,  by  Bishop 
Charbonnel,  May  21,  1864;  was  in  this  diocese  for  one  year 
(1867-68)  as  one  of  the  professors  of  St.  Louis'  College,  Louis- 
ville, Stark  county  ;  also  attended  Leetonia  as  a  mission 
from  1867  to  July,  1868.  At  present  he  is  at  St.  Michael's 
College,  Toronto. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  157 

• 

223.     MULLON,    Rev.  James  Ignatius,  a  native  of  Ireland, 

studied  for  the  ministry  at  Mt.  St.  Marx's  Seminar)-,  Kmmitts- 
burg,  Md.,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Fenwick  in  1824. 
Shortly  after  his  ordination  he  attended  the  Catholic  settlers 
in  Columbiana  county,  and  repeatedly  made  pastoral  visits  to 
Canton,  Tiffin  and  Fremont.  He  was  stationed  at  the 
cathedral  in  Cincinnati-  for  nearly  ten  years,  and  while  there 
he  published  the  Catholic  Telegraph  (1831-34),  of  which  he 
was  the  first  editor.  lie  was  a  brilliant  writer  and  an  elo- 
quent preacher.  He  left  Ohio  in  1834  and  went  to  the  dio- 
cese  of  New  <  Orleans,  where  he  died  in  September,  1866,  aged 
seventy-two  years. 

223.  MYLER,  Rev.  James  P.,  was  born  in  Cleveland,  O., 
July  27,  1856.  In  his  seventeenth  year  he  entered  Mount  St. 
Mary's  Seminar}',  Cincinnati,  where  he  made  his  collegiate 
studies.  After  completing  them  he  was  received  into  St. 
Mary's  Seminar)-,  Cleveland,  where  he  made  the  usual  course 
of  philosophy  and  theology.  He  was  ordained  in  the  Semi- 
nar}- chapel  by  Bishop  Gilmour,  Jul}'  6,  1884.  A  few  weeks 
after  his  ordination  he  was  sent  to  St.  Augustine's,  Cleveland, 
to  supply,  for  a  short  time,  the  place  of  the  pastor,  then  off 
on  a  leave  of  absence  because  of  ill  health.  He  was  next  sent 
to  Niles  to  take  temporary  charge  of  St.  Stephen's  congrega- 
tion. IK-  filled  a  like  position  at  St.  Mary's,  Norwalk,  for  a  few 
weeks.  January  20,  [885,  he  was  sent  to  Holy  Name  Church. 
Cleveland,  as  assistant.  This  last  position  he  held  till  July, 
[887,  when  he  was  relieved  from  all  duty  owing  to  consump- 
tion, to  which  he  had  fallen  a  victim.  lie  then  retired  to  his 
home  at  Painesville,  Ohio,  where  he  died  August  31.  [887. 
Me   was   a   model    priest,  and    a   young    man  of  much  promise. 

itle     in    manner,    of    quiet    and     retiring    disposition,     he 
imp  I    all    within    his    circle    as    an    earnest    and    sincere 

worker  in  tin-  ministry. 

Neumann,  Rt.  Rev.  John  Nepomucene  Redemp- 
torist  ,  was  born  on  Good  Friday,  March  28,  t8n,  at  Pracha- 
tit/,  Bohemia.     His  parents  were  from   Bavaria,  but  in    1802 


158  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

had  settled  in  Bohemia.  He  made  his  studies  at  the  semina- 
ries of  Budweis  and  Prague,  where  he  distinguished  himself 
by  his  talent  and  piety.  He  came  to  the  United  States  in 
1836  and  was  ordained  in  New  York  city  by  Bishop  Dubois, 
June  25,  of  same  year.  Remaining  a  secular  priest  till  Octo- 
ber, 1840,  he  sought  admission  from  the  Redemptorists  and  was 
received  at  Pittsburgh  as  a  novice.  During  the  summer  of 
the  following  year  he  was  sent  to  Peru,  in  this  diocese,  as 
assistant  to  Rev.  F.  X.  Tschenhens,  also  a  Redemptorist. 
November,  1841,  he  was  sent  to  Baltimore  to  finish  his  novi- 
tiate. On  his  way  thither  he  met  Bishop  Pureed  at  Canton, 
who  asked  him  to  go  to  Randolph  for  a  few  weeks  and  there 
reorganize  the  congregation  that  had  been  without  spiritual 
attendance  since  the  destruction  of  their  church,  by  a  bigoted 
incendiary,  in  1838.  Father  Neumann  did  as  asked  and  then 
resumed  his  journey  to  Baltimore.  March  28,  1852,  he  was 
consecrated  Bishop  of  Philadelphia.  He  died  suddenly  in 
that  city,  January  5,  i860.  He  was  distinguished  for  his 
great  humility,  piety,  learning  and  zeal,  and  was  known  as  a 
saintly  priest  and  bishop.  May,  1886,  a  commission  was 
appointed  to  inquire  into  the  life,  character  and  works  of 
Bishop  Neumann,  and  to  send  to  Rome  the  testimony  pro- 
cured, with  a  view  to  having  him  eventually  canonized.  It  is 
the  belief  of  all  who  came  in  contact  with  Bishop  Neumann 
during  his  life  that  he  possessed  the  virtues  and  attributes  of 
a  saint.  This  belief  has  been  strengthened  since  his  death  by 
the  many  miraculous  cures  which  are  said  to  have  taken 
place  at  the  tomb  where  his  remains  lie,  in  St.  Peter's  Church, 
Philadelphia. 

225.  NEUMANN,  Rev.  Maximilian  (Franciscan)  was  born 
in  Neustadt,  Silesia,  July  7,  1846.  He  was  educated  for  the 
Franciscans  at  Neisse,  (Silesia),  Duesseldorf  and  Paderborn, 
(Germany),  and  was  also  ordained  for  their  Order  by  Archbishop 
Melchers,  at  Cologne,  March  13,  1875.  He  was  sent  to  this 
country  by  his  superiors  in  September,  1875,  and  stationed  as 
assistant  at  St.  Francis'  church,  Ouincy,  111.,  where  he 
remained  till  July,  1885.    His  next  appointment  was  as  super- 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  159 

ior  of  the  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  July,  1885 
to  August  6,  1888.  He  was  then  made  pastor  of  St.  Peter's 
Church,  Chicago,  where  he  now  resides. 

226.  NEUMANN,  Rev.  Nicholas  Lawrence,  was  a  native  of 
Boulogne,  diocese  of  Metz,  France,  where  he  was  also  edu- 
cated for  the  ministry.  He  was  ordained  at  Metz  by  Bishop 
Besson,  and  was  engaged  on  the  mission  in  his  native  diocese 
till  1850,  when  he  went  to  America,  and  was  received  into  the 
diocese  of  St.  Louis.  January,  1852,  he  was  received  into  the 
diocese  of  Cleveland  by  Bishop  Rappe,  who  directed  him  to 
attend  the  Catholic  Germans  of  Cleveland.  Left  the  diocese 
about  April,  1852,  and  went  to  Toronto;  later  he  returned  to 
Europe,  where  he  died  a  few  years  ago. 

22J.  NlEMOELLER,  Rev.  Fustace  (Franciscan),  was  born 
at  Visbeck,  Westphalia,  April  9,  1837;  in  the  United  States 
since  August,  i860;  ordained  at  Teutopolis,  111.,  for  the  Fran- 
ciscans by  Bishop  Juncker,  December  4,  1868;  attached  to 
Franciscan  Monaster}-,  Cleveland,  from  September,  1871,  to 
August,  [880.  lie  was  chaplain  and  spiritual  director  to 
several  religious  communities.  He  also  assisted  the  secular 
clergy  in  pastoral  work.      He  is  now  stationed  at  Chicago. 

228.  NIGHTINGALE,  Rev.  William  L.,  of  English  birth, 
was  received  into  this  diocese  July,   [848,  and  for  a  few  weeks 

isted  at  the  cathedral,  then  on  the-  "flats,"  Cleveland.  I  It- 
was  thru  appointed  first  resident  pastor  of  St.  Ann's,  Fre- 
mont, where  he  remained  till  In-  left  the  diocese,  some  time 
during  the  early  part  of  1N50.  lie  was  a  zealous  priest  and 
an  eloquent  preacher.     X<>  other  record  of  him. 

NOI  II.  I\e\.  Jacob  :  Franciscan  ,  was  bom  August 
8,  [851,  at  Geseke,  diocese  of  Paderborn,  Westphalia;  came 
to  the  United  States  July,  [875;  ordained  July  25,  [877;  in 
Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  [878  to  [879  At 
present  he  is  in  the  diocese  of  ( Imaha. 

\i'i  11  .    Kev.   Paschalis     Franciscan  ,  was  born    at 
tphalia,  Germany,  June   i_\   1845;  educated  at 


160  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF    THE 

Franciscan  Monastery,  Ouincy,  111.;  was  ordained  at  St. 
Louis  for  the  Franciscans  by  Bishop  Ryan,  June  5,  1881;  a 
member  of  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  July,  1882 
to  July,  1885.      He  is  now  in  the  diocese  of  St.  Louis. 

231.  NUNAN,  Rev.  F.  X.,  was  born  in  County  Limerick, 
Ireland,  May  10,  1845;  made  his  studies  at  St.  Mary's  Semi- 
nary, Baltimore,  and  St.  Sulpice,  Paris  ;  was  ordained  by 
.Archbishop  Alemany  for  the  diocese  of  San  Francisco,  Sep- 
tember, 1869.  Till  1875  he  was  engaged  on  the  mission  in 
California  and  Kansas,  when  he  came  to  the  diocese  of  Cleve- 
land, where  he  had  charge  of  the  following  places  :  Wakeman, 
with  Medina  as  mission,  October,  1875  to  May,  1878  ;  Ver- 
million and  several  missions,  till  March,  1879  ;  Clyde  and  the 
mission  of  Green  Spring,  to  June,  1881  ;  Archbold  and  mis- 
sions, till  April,  1882  ;  St.  Mary's  Corners,  till  August,  1883  ; 
Wellsville,  till  September  15,  1884,  when  he  went  to  the  dio- 
cese of  Peoria.      Present  residence  not  known. 

232.  O'Bairne,     Rev. — (Dominican);     stationed    at     St. 
John's,  Canton,  in  1835.      No  other  record  of  him. 

233.  O'Brien,  Rev.  Denis  P.,  born  in  the  parish  of 
Knockainy,  County  Limerick,  Ireland,  July  8,  1859,  was  edu- 
cated for  the  priesthood  at  Mt.  Melleray  and  St.  John's, 
Waterford,  Ireland.  Bishop  Powers  ordained  him  at  Water- 
ford,  June  17,  1883.  Shortly  after  his  ordination  he  came  to 
the  Lhiited  States  and  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Kan- 
sas City,  where  he  was  stationed  at  St.  Patrick's  church  in  the 
city  of  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  November,  1883  to  January  23,  1884. 
Bishop  Gilmour  received  him  in  February,  1884,  and 
appointed  him  resident  pastor  of  Warren  with  charge  of  Man- 
tua and  a  number  of  stations.  From  Warren  he  also  attended 
Niles  for  several  months.  He  was  transferred  to  Niles,  Sep- 
tember, 1884,  and  remained  till  April  4,  1888,  when  he  left  the 
diocese  of  his  own  accord  and  went  to  Chicago,  where  he  is 
now  engaged  in  pastoral  work. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  161 

234.  O'CallaGHAN,  Rev.  Cornelius  J.,  was  born  at  Kan- 
turk,  County  Cork,  Ireland,  March  io,  1832;  made  his  eccle- 
siastical studies  at  Cork,  Ireland,  and  Fordham,  N.  Y.;  was 
ordained  by  Archbishop  Hughes  for  the  diocese  of  Portland, 
(  Ictober  20,  [860.  Bishop  Rappe  received  him  into  this  cho- 
se in  [869  and  sent  him  as  assistant  to  St.  Francis',  Toledo, 

where  he  remained  till  1871,  when  he  was  appointed  assistant 
at  the  Cathedral,  Cleveland.  There  he  remained  till  1874, 
when  he  returned  to  the  diocese  of  Portland,  where  he  now  is. 

235.  O'CONNOR,  Rev.  John  B.,  born  and  educated  in  I  in- 
land, was  ordained  at  Pittsburgh  by  Bishop  O'Connor  about 
1854.  Bishop  Rappe  received  him  into  this  diocese  and 
appointed  him  assistant  at  the  Cathedral  May,  1857,  where  he 
remained  till  June,  i860,  when  he  left  the  diocese.  No  other 
reo >rd  of  him. 

236.  O'Connor,  Rev.  William,  was  born  in  Ballyorgan, 
County  Limerick,  Ireland,  March  30,  1827;  made  his  theolog- 
ical studies  at  St.  Marx's  Seminar}',  Cleveland,  and  was 
ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  November  21,  185 1.  He  had 
charge  of  Elyria,  Grafton,  Rockport,  Liverpool  and  Medina 
till  1853,  attending  these  places  from  Cleveland.  Between 
1853  and  [855  he  attended  Youngstown,  Wellsville  and  East 
Liverpool  from  Dungannon.  From  July,  1855  to  July,  185.x 
he  was  stationed  at  St.  Francis',  Toledo,  first  as  assistant  to 
Rev.  A.  Campion,  and  from  May,  1850,  as  pastor,  During 
this  time  he  also  attended  Sylvania  and  several  stations. 
Youngstown  was  his  next  appointment  as  first  resilient  pas- 
tor of  St.  Columba's,  with  Briar  Hill,  Wan-en,  Niles  ami  New- 
Bedford  .1-  missions,  besides  a  number  of  stations  [858  to 
1862,  when  he  left  the  diocese  and  joined  the  Redemptorists, 
with  whom  he  has  since  remained.  At  present  he  resides  al 
I'm  iston. 

237.  O'DWYER,  Rev.  Patrick,  a  native  of  Cashel,  County 
ripperary,  Ireland,  was  ordained  al  Quebec,  in  [829.  Sep- 
tember,   1837,  he  cam*    to  Cleveland   as   successor  to   Re> 


162  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

John  Dillon,  where  he  did  pastoral  duty  till  December,  1839, 
besides  attending  a  number  of  missions  and  stations  in  Lorain, 
Summit  and  Portage  counties.  He  commenced  the  frame 
church  on  the  Flats,  for  which  his  predecessor  had  collected 
about  $1,100.  He  left  in  1840  and  went  to  London,  Canada, 
and  later  he  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Chicago.  He 
died  at  St.  Charles,  111.,  August  30,  1871. 

238.  O'HlGGINS,  Rev.  William,  of  Irish  birth,  was  edu- 
cated at  Maynooth;  ordained  in.  British  Guinea  about  1853. 
He  was  nephew  to  Bishop  O'Higgins  of  Ardagh.  Came  to 
Cincinnati  in  1857  and  was  appointed  successor  to  Rev.  R. 
Gilmour  at  Ironton.  Remained  there  about  one  year,  when 
he  was  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Thomas',  Cincinnati,  (1858-60); 
then  assistant  to  Father  Gilmour,  at  St.  Patrick's,  same  city. 
From  1862  to  1864  he  was  chaplain  of  the  Tenth  Regiment, 
O.  V.  I.  Next  he  was  in  charge  of  Sedamsville  mission,  near 
Cincinnati,  for  nearly  a  year,  when  he  was  received  into  the 
diocese  of  Little  Rock  where  he  remained  till  about  1870. 
He  then  came  to  Cleveland  in  1871,  and  was  appointed  pro- 
fessor at  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  where  he  remained  till  his 
appointment  as  pastor  of  St.  Augustine's,  Cleveland,  Decem- 
ber, 1 87 1,  to  June,  1872.  Was  a  few  months  at  Charity 
Hospital  as  a  patient,  in  1872,  and  then  left  the  diocese. 
Returned  to  Ireland,  where  he  died  in  1875. 

239.  O'KEEFE,  Rev.  Daniel,  was  born  at  Middleton, 
County  Cork,  Ireland,  in  1835;  began  his  studies  in  Cork, 
continued  at  St.  Vincent's  College,  Westmoreland  County, 
Perm.,  and  finished  them  in  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland, 
where  he  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  June  25,  1865.  He 
was  appointed  first  resident  pastor  of  South  Thompson, 
1865-66,  attending  Jefferson  as  a  mission.  He  was  then  sent 
to  Defiance  as  assistant  to  Rev.  A.  I.  Hoeffel,  with  charge  of 
Antwerp  (where  he  began  the  present  church),  Mud  Creek, 
Delaware  Bend,  and  several  smaller  missions.  October,  1869, 
he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Providence,  where  he  remained 
till  January,  1871,  when  he  was  obliged  to  resign,  owing  to  ill 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  163 

health.  I  le  was  lying  sick  in  the  pastoral  residence  at  Perrys- 
burgh  for  ten  weeks,  when  he  was  removed  to  St.  Vincent's 
Hospital,  Toledo,  where  he  died  June  — ,  1871.  His  remains 
are  buried  in  St.  Francis'  Cemetery,  Toledo.  Father  O'Keefe 
was  a  zealous,  earnest  priest,  and  won  the  esteem  of  his  par- 
ishioners, wherever  he  was  engaged  in  the  ministry. 

240.  O'LEARY,  Rev.  D.  J.,  (Dominican;,  a  native  of  Ire- 
land, made  his  ecclesiastical  studies  at  the  Minerva,  Rome; 
came  to  the  United  States  in  182 1,  and  was  ordained  by 
Bishop  Flaget,  at  St.  Rose's,  Kentucky,  in  1823.  He  attended 
Dungannon,  Columbiana  county,  in  1834.  Died  at  the  Domin- 
ican Convent,  near  Somerset,  Perry  county,  February  8,  1845, 
aged  fifty-one. 

241.  O'MARA,  Rev.  Patrick  H.,  was  born  in  Chicago,  111., 
February  22,  1S52.  He  was  educated  for  the  priesthood  at 
Louisville  College  ami  St.  Mary's  Seminar)-,  Cleveland.  Bishop 
Gilmour  ordained  him  July  5,  1877,  and  a  few  days  later 
appointed  him  resident  pastor  of  Hudson,  with  charge  of  the 
missions  of  Cuyahoga  Falls  and  Peninsula.  He  remained 
there  till  July,  I  NX  1 .  In  the' following  month  he  was  appointed 
assistant  to  Rev.  M.  Healy,  pastor  of  St.  Mary's,  Tiffin. 
December  of  same  year  he  received  a  like  appointment  to  St. 
(  olumba's,  Voungstown,  where  he  remained  one  year.  His 
last  mission  was  as  assistant  to  Rev.  A.  1.  Hoefifel,  pastor  of 
St.  John's  Church,  Delphos.from  August,  [886  to  September 
[888,  when  owing  to  sickness  he  went  to  St.  Elizabeth's  llos- 
pital,  Port  Wayne.  There,  after  four  weeks'  illness,  he  died 
October  22,  [888.  His  remains  are  interred  in  St.  John's 
>   <  nxtiiy,  (   levelaild. 

1  1  Mi  \i.\,  Rev.  Joseph,  was  born  in  Ireland,  [815. 
IP-  was  stationed  at  St.  John's,  Canton,  for  .1  few  months  in 
[840.  Later  he  was  Superior  of  the  Diocesan  Seminary,  in 
Brown  county,  Ohio  (at  present  the  well-known  Ursuline 
Convent  ;  he  was  als..,  for  a  number  of  years,  at  Portsmouth 
and    Dayton.     He   died    in    [856.     His  grave  is    in  Calvary 

<  Vim  ter\,   1  )a\  ton,  (  )hio. 


1 64  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

243.  O'MEARA,  Rev.  J.  (Dominican),  was  stationed  at  St. 
John's,  Canton,  1835-36,  and  attended  Canal  Fulton.  Left 
Ohio  about  1840  and  went  to  Illinois,  where  he  died.  No 
other  record  of  him. 

244.  O'Neill,  Rev.  Michael,  was  born  in  the  parish  of 
Bruff,  County  Limerick,  Ireland,  June  24,  1830;  made  his 
ecclesiastical  studies  at  Cork  and  Castle  Knock,  Ireland,  and 
in  the  Diocesan  Seminary  of  Cleveland.  He  was  ordained  by 
Bishop  Rappe,  January  1,  1855,  and  remained  at  the  Cathedral 
as  assistant,  with  charge  of  Berea,  Hudson  and  Mantua  as 
missions,  till  July,  1856.  Then  he  was  appointed  pastor  of 
Wooster,  remaining  till  July,  1861.  He  also  attended  Mans- 
field, Crestline  and  Bucyrus  as  missions,  besides  several  small 
stations,  whilst  pastor  of  Wooster.  July,  1861,  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  St.  Ann's,  Fremont,  which  charge  he  held  till  May, 
1865,  when  he  left  the  diocese  and  went  to  Cincinnati.  There 
he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Holy  Angels'  Church.  This 
charge  he  held  till  his  death,  April  24,  1885. 

245.  O'Reilly,  Rev.  James,  was  born  in  Rossduff,  County 
Longford,  Ireland,  February  14,  1841,  and  made  his  studies 
at  Xew  Orleans,  Niagara  Falls,  and  in  St.  Mary's  Seminary, 
Cleveland.  He  was  ordained  by  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Rappe, 
June  24,  1866,  and  appointed  assistant  at  the  Cathedral,  where 
he  remained  till  October  1,  1869.  He  was  then  appointed 
pastor  of  St.  Rose's,  Lima.  January  6,  1871,  he  was  recalled 
to  Cleveland  to  take  charge  of  St.  Columbkill's  congregation, 
just  then  organized.  He  remained  there  till  October  1,  1872, 
when  he  was  sent  to  Toledo  as  pastor  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales' 
Church,  where  he  continued  till  his  death,  September  30,  1885. 

246.  O'Sullivax,  Rev.  Michael,  was  born  in  Ireland  (no 
record  of  date  or  place) ;  finished  his  studies  for  the  ministry  at 
St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop 
Rappe,  August  — ,  1852.  His  first  appointment  was  at  St. 
Mary's,  Tiffin,  September,  1852  to  February,  1859,  where, 
under  great  difficulties,  he  built  the  present  church.     There  he 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  165 

also  established  a  parochial  school.  From  Tiffin  he  attended 
Findlay  till  1854.  February,  1 S 5 9,  he  was  received  by  Arch- 
bishop Pureed,  who  sent  him  to  Urbana.  Five  months  later 
he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Holy  Angels'  Church,  Cincinnati. 
In  1S60  he  went  to  the  diocese  of  Chicago,  and  remained 
there  till  his  death,  as  pastor  of  Amara,  111.,  July  — ,  1865. 
His  remains  were  interred  in  Calvary  Cemetery,  Chicago, 
Jul}-  28,  1865.  Father  O'Sullivan  was  a  man  of  sterling  quali- 
ties, firm  but  kind  in  his  dealings  with  those  committed  to  his 
care.  He  was  also  an  excellent  preacher.  The  writer  will 
ever  treasure  most  pleasant  recollections  of  this  warm-hearted 
priest,  whose  parochial  school  he  attended,  and  one  of  whose 
altar  boys  he  was  for  several  years.  Father  O'Sullivan 's 
greatest  delight  was  to  be  with  the  children  of  his  parish. 
His  genial  ways  spread  sunshine  and  joy  on  those  whom  he 
honored  with  his  presence.  To  the  children  as  well  as  to  the 
adults  committed  to  his  care,  he  was  indeed  a  spiritual  father, 
a  wise  counselor  and  true  friend. 

247.  OBERLE,  Rev.  Francis  Joseph,  born  in  Schweinheim, 
Havana,  May  7,  1X42,  was  ordained  for  the  Redemptorists, 
April  1,  [865.  in  [874  he  became  a  secular  priest.  He  was  in 
the  diocese  of  Cleveland  from  February,  1877,  till  March,  [881, 
and  had  charge  of  Shelby  as  resident  pastor,  and  attended 
Chicago  Junction,  where  he  organized  a  congregation  and 
built  the  present  church,  also  Plymouth  and  Republic.  After 
leaving  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  he  was  admitted,  some  time 
after,  by  Bishop  Gross,  to  the  Vicariate  of  North  Carolina, 
where  In-  was  Oil  the  mission  till  [883,  when  he  became  an 
invalid  <>f  consumption.  He  was  received  by  his  friend,  Rev. 
A.  J.  Sauer,  pastor  of  St.  Andrew's,  Ellenville,  Ulster  county, 
New  York,  with  whom  he  made  his  home  till  death,  March 
10,   1885. 

Obermueller,   Rev.    Francis   Xavier,  a  native    of 
Austria,  was  born  at  Schwarzenberg,  Tyrol,  October  6,  [810. 

1  I < -  came    to  this    country  in    July,    [844,  .du\    was  ordained  by 
Bishop    llenni    lor    the    diocese    of   Milwaukee,   June    II,    [846. 


166  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

Shortly  after  his  ordination  he  expressed  a  desire  to 
join  the  Sanguinist  Fathers,  whose  community  in  Tyrol 
he  had  learned  to  esteem.  His  wish  was  granted  by 
his  Ordinary.  He  was  therefore  received  at  New  Riegel, 
Ohio,  by  the  Very  Rev.  Provincial  Brunner,  under  whose 
direction  he  did  pastoral  duty  in  various  places  in  the 
diocese  of  Cleveland,  viz.:  New  Riegel,  as  assistant  pastor, 
from  1847  to  1848;  also  attended  as  missions,  St.  Joseph's, 
Tiffin,  1850;  Fostoria  and  Liberty,  1848.  Next  he  was  assis- 
tant at  Thompson,  from  1848  to  1850,  when  he  left  the  San- 
eruinists  and  returned  to  the  diocese  of  Milwaukee,  where  he 
had  pastoral  charges  till  1852.  He  then  went  back  to  his 
native  Tyrol,  where  he  was  pastor  till  October,  1856.  In  the 
following  month  he  returned  to  America  with  Very  Rev. 
Father  Brunner,  having  been  received  again  as  a  member  of 
the  Sanguinist  Society.  .February,  1857,  he  was  given  charge 
of  a  congregation  in  Mercer  county,  O.,  and  later  a  professor- 
ship in  the  Sanguinist  College,  then  existing  at  Gruenewald, 
same  county.  September  12,  1857,  he  was  sent  to  Cleveland 
as  pastor  of  St.  Mary  of  the  Assumption  congregation,  then 
occupying  the  old  frame  church  on  the  Flats.  This  charge 
he  retained  till  August,  1861.  Meanwhile,  December,  i860, 
he  again  left  the  Sanguinists  and  beeame  a  secular  priest  and 
so  continued  till  death.  During  his  pastorate  of  St.  Mary's, 
Cleveland,  a  portion  of  the  present  church  property  was 
bought  and  the  parochial  school  enlarged  and  placed^  in 
charge  of  Brothers  of  Mary  and  Ursuline  Sisters.  August, 
1 86 1,  he  was  sent  by  Bishop  Rappe  to  Norwalk  as  pastor  of 
St.  Peter's,  where  he  remained  till  he  again  left  the  diocese, 
October,  1865.  From  Norwalk  he  attended  Peru,  Septem- 
ber, 1861,  to  September,  1862;  Milan,  1863-65;  Monroeville, 
where  he  organized  the  present  congregation,  September, 
1861,  to  July,  1863.  In  October,  1865,  he  returned  to  the 
diocese  of  Milwaukee,  having  been  reclaimed  by  Bishop 
Henni.  He  was  sent  to  Jefferson,  Wis.,  as  pastor  of  St.  Law- 
rence's Church  and  chaplain  of  the  Franciscan  Sisters,  remain- 
ing till  1 87 1,  when  he  became  affiliated  with  the  diocese  of 
La  Crosse,  on   invitation  of  its  first  bishop,  the  Rt.   Rev.   M. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  167 

Heiss,  whose  intimate  friend  he  was  for  many  years.  As  he 
was  of  advanced  years  and  delicate  health  he  was  unable  to 
do  pastoral  duty.  Bishop  Heiss  therefore  assigned  him  the 
chaplaincy  of  St.  Rose's  Convent,  at  La  Crosse,  where  he 
resided  till  his  death,  June  12,  1886.  Whilst  connected  with 
the  diocese  of  La  Crosse  he  was  a  member  of  the  Bishop's 
Council,  and  always  held  in  high  esteem  by  his  superiors,  and 
by  his  co-laborers  on  the  missions,  for  his  priestly  virtues  and 
worth.  He  was  a  fine  scholar,  a  saintly  and  self-sacrificing 
priest. 

249.  ORZECHOWSKI,  Rev.  M.  F.,  a  native  of  Poland,  was 
born  at  Stopnica,  May  30,  1838,  and  educated  for  the  priest- 
hood in  Poland  and  in  the  seminary  at  Sans,  France.  He  was 
ordained  for  the  diocese  of  Galveston,  Texas,  by  Bishop 
Dubuis,  November  1,  1866.  He  was  on  the  mission  in  Texas 
till  [882;  then  in  the  diocese  of  Milwaukee  till  August,  1884, 
when  Bishop  Gilmour  received  him  and  appointed  him  pastor 
of  St.  Anthony's,  (Polish)  congregation,  Toledo.  This  posi- 
tion he  held  till  November,  1887,  when  he  went  to  Europe. 
He  returned  in  May,  1888;  then  went  to  the  diocese  of  Buffalo, 
where  he  is  now  engaged  in  the  ministry. 

250.  PAGANINI,  Rev.  Angelo  was  born,  educated  and 
ordained  in  Italy.  After  being  on  the  mission  in  several  dio- 
ceaps    in    the    East,    in    New    Jersey    and  Maryland,  he   was 

eived  by  Bishop  Gilmour  in  1873,  and  appointed  resident 
pastor  of  Warren.  There  he  remained  till  1875,  when  after  a 
feu  months'  absence,  he  was  sent  to  Hudson,  February,  1876, 
remaining  till  May,  1S77,  when  he  left  the  diocese,  and  later 
returned  to  Italy.  He  died  there  of  cholera,  near  Assisi, 
August      ,  [884. 

1.     Paganini,  Rev.  Joseph,  was  received  into  this  dio- 

e  in  [875  and  appointed  pastor  of  Warren.  Remained  but 
a  shorl  time.     No  other  record  of  him. 

I'i  11  1;.  Rev.  George,  was  born  in  Somborn,  Chur- 
Hessen,  Europe.  Maj  19,  [835;  made  his  studies  at  St.  Mar 


1 68  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

Seminary,  Cleveland;  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  June  26, 
1859.  He  bad  tbe  following  pastoral  charges  in  this  diocese: 
Fremont,  St.  Joseph's,  as  assistant,  with  charge  of  the  missions 
of  Millersville  (Greensburg),  Clyde,  Elmore.  Woodville,  Port 
Clinton  and  Toussaint,  July,  1859  to  June>  l86l5  Dungannon, 
with  Leetonia  as  a  mission,  and  the  stations  of  New  Lisbon 
and  Salem,  June,  1861  to  June,  1864;  Liverpool,  June,  1864  to 
January,  1866;  Milan  to  October,  1868;  Upper  Sandusky  to 
March,  1873,  from  which  place  he  also  attended  Kirby,  Jan- 
uary, 1869-March,  1873.  After  three  months'  illness  he  was 
sent  to  Avon  in  the  fall  of  1873,  and  attended  Sheffield  as  a 
mission.  In  the  following  year  he  was  appointed  pastor  of 
St.  Peter's,  Norwalk.  He  remained  there  till  October,  1875. 
Edgerton  and  Florence  were  his  next  charges,  October,  1875 
to  May,  1879,  when  he  was  sent  to  Fort  Jennings,  remaining 
till  June,  1 88 1.  Since  last  mentioned  date  he  has  not  done 
pastoral  duty.  For  the  last  few  years  he  has  been  residing  at 
Put-in-Bay. 

253.  PEUDEPRAT,  Rev.  Peter,  was  born,  educated  and 
ordained  in  the  diocese  of  Clermont,  France;  came  to  Northern 
Ohio  in  1845,  and  was  sent  to  Sandusky  as  assistant  to  Rev.  P. 
J.  Machebeuf,  pastor  of  Holy  Angels'  Church,  whence  he  also 
attended  the  mission  of  Fremont.  January,  1846,  he  was 
sent  to  Louisville,  Stark  county,  as  successor  to  Rev.  L.  de 
Goesbriand.  From  this  place  he  attended  Harrisburg,  and 
occasionally,  also,  Wellsville.  He  remained  at  Louisville  till 
April,  1850,  when  he  went  to  reside  at  St.  Mary's  Seminary, 
Cleveland,  for  a  few  months.  In  the  latter  part  of  1850  he 
assumed  charge  of  Painesville,  as  first  resident  pastor.  At 
once  he  secured  the  present  church  lot  and  had  moved  on  it 
an  old  carpenter  shop,  which  he  bought  and  changed  it  into  a 
temporary  church.  From  Painesville  he  attended  as  missions, 
South  Thompson,  Willoughby  and  Conneaut.  He  left  Paines- 
ville and  the  diocese,  in  the  summer  of  1852,  to  join  his  life- 
long friend,  Bishop  Lamy,  in  the  hard  missionary  life  of 
New  Mexico.  On  his  way  thither  he  fell  a  victim  to  cholera 
at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  died  July  — ,  1852. 


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254.     PONCHEL,    Rev.   Narcissus,  was  born   at   Hermelin- 
ghen,  France,  September  19,  1825;  completed  his  studies  for 
the  priesthood  in  the  Diocesan  Seminary,  Cleveland,  where  he 
was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  January  1,  185  1.     Till  March, 
185 1,  he  attended  Avon  from  Cleveland,  and  was  then  sent  as 
assistant  to  Rev.  Philip  Foley,  pastor  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales', 
Toledo,  remaining  until  1854.     During  his  stay  at  Toledo,  he 
also  had  charge  of  the  missions  of  Six  Mile  Woods  (1851-52), 
Providence    (1851-54),     Toussaint     (1852-53),     and     Maumee 
(1852-53).       February,     1854,    he    was    appointed    pastor    of 
Doylestown  and  attended  Canal   Fulton  as  a  mission  till  Jan- 
uary,   1855,   when   he  accepted  a  professorship  at   St.  John's 
College,   then   in   existence   in   Cleveland.      He    retained  this 
position  till  1856,  when  Bishop  Rappe  sent  him  to  Norwalk  to 
take  charge  of  St.  Peter's  congregation,  and  to  organize  the 
Knglish-speaking  Catholics  of  the  same  town  as  a  congrega- 
tion (St.  Mary's),  whose  present  church  was  commenced  and 
nearly  completed   under  his  direction.      He  was  pastor  of  St. 
Peter's  till    1S5S,  and  of  St.  Mary's  till  his  death,  September 
15,    i860.     His  remains  repose  beneath  the  church  he  built, 
and  in  it  a  memorial  tablet  is  erected  to  his  memory.      Father 
Ponchel  was  a  man  of  fine  acquirements,  a  priestly  character, 
and    a    thorough    gentleman.     By    his    refined    manners    and 
gentle  ways  he  made  friends  of  all  who  had  dealings  with  him. 
To    this    day    his    memory   is   cherished   by    Protestants    and 
Catholics  of  Norwalk,  and  wherever  he  labored  in  the  diocese. 

_55.  PRAESSAR,  Rev.  Hugo  (Jesuit),  was  born  January  1  1, 
[838,  at  Ahrlweiler,  diocese  of  Treves;  ordained  August  27, 
[863;  in  this  country  since  September,  1868;  was  assistant  .it 
St.    Mary's    Toledo,    from     1S71     to    1873.      No    record    of  his 

present  residence. 

256.       PRENDERGAST,     Rev.     Michael,    was     bom,     educated 

ami  ordained  in  Ireland,     lb-  was  received  into  tin'  diocese  of 
Cleveland    in    1855,  and    stationed   at    the   Cathedral    for    a 

lew    months.      ||i>    next    appointment    was    Summitville,   with 

Leetonia,   Niles,  Youngstown  and  Warren  as  missions,  April, 


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1856,  to  1858.  He  then  left  the  diocese  and  resided  with  the 
Sanguinists  at  Wapakoneta,  (diocese  of  Cincinnati,)  from 
which  place  he  attended  Lima  for  a  short  time  in  1861.  Dur- 
ing this  last  mentioned  year  he  affiliated  with  the  diocese 
of  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  where  he  was  pastor  at  Winona.  He  died 
about  1862. 

257.  PROST,  Very  Rev.  Joseph  (Redemptorist),  was  born 
in  Austria,  January,  1804;  ordained  July  16,  1832;  came  to  the 
United  States  in  1834;  attended  Peru,  Huron  county,  between 
1835  and  1839;  was  Provincial  of  the  Redemptorists  in  the 
United  States  between  1840  and  1843;  returned  to  Europe; 
died  at  Puchheim,  Austria,  March  19,  1885. 

258.  PUETZ,  Rev.  Anselm  (Franciscan),  Avas  born  at 
Dueren,  diocese  of  Cologne,  Prussia,  September  1,  1834; 
ordained  September  1,  1862;  in  the  United  States  since  July, 
1875;  belonged  to  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  from 
1884  to  July,  1885.       He  is  now  in  the  diocese  of  Chicago,  111. 

259.  •  QUINN,  Rev.  Bernard,  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1840. 
He  made  his  studies  for  the  ministry,  in  part,  at  St.  Mary's 
Seminary,  Cleveland,  and  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe, 
July  3,  1864.  Was  then  sent  to  Louisville,  Stark  county,  as 
professor  in  the  college  then  and  there  in  existence,  where  he 
remained  till  some  time  in  1865.  He  was  appointed  first  res- 
ident pastor  of  Upper  Sandusky,  but  retained  this  position 
only  two  months.  His  next  and  last  appointment  in  this 
diocese  was  St.  Joseph's,  Maumee,  where  he  remained  till 
some  time  in  1866,  when  he  left  the  diocese  of  Cleveland. 
He  is  now  in  Colorado. 

260.  QUINN,  Rev.  Edmund,  a  native  of  Ireland,  made  his 
ecclesiastical  studies  at  Bardstown,  Ky.,  and  was  ordained  at 
Cincinnati  by  Bishop  Fen  wick,  January  1,  1831.  He  was  the 
first  resident  pastor  of  St.  Mary's,  Tiffin,  receiving  his  appoint- 
ment in  May,  1831,  after  having  done  pastoral  duty  in  Cin- 
cinnati.     He  organized  St.   Mary's  congregation,  Tiffin,  and 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  171 

had  its  first  (brick)  church  built  on  a  lot  near  the  present 
Ursuline  Convent.  From  Tiffin  he  attended  the  Catholic 
families  along  and  near  the  Miami  canal,  from  Providence, 
Lucas  count}-,  O.,  to  Peru,  Indiana,  at  which  latter  place  he 
died,  September  5,  1835,  a  victim  of  the  dreaded  Maumee 
fever.     He  was  a  most  zealous,  self-sacrificing  priest. 

271.  QUINN,  Rev.  John,  was  born  at  Kanturk,  County 
Cork,  Ireland,  December  1,  1824.  He  came  to  this  country 
in  1S52,  and  two  years  later  entered  St.  Mary's  Seminar)', 
Cleveland,  where  he  made  his  theological  studies.  June 
13,  1858,  he  was  elevated  to  the  priesthood  by  Bishop 
Rappe,  who  sent  him,  the  following  month,  as  assist- 
ant at  St.  Francis  de  Sales'  Church,  Toledo.  There  he 
remained  till  December,  i860,  when  he  was  appointed  pas- 
tor of  St.  Mary's,  Norwalk.  He  held  this  charge  till  April, 
[864,  besides  attending  the  mission  of  Wakeman  about  one 
year,  [863-64.  At  Norwalk  the  church,  commenced  by  his 
predecessor,  Rev.  X.  Ponchel,  was  completed  under  his 
direction.  April,  1864,  he  was  appointed  Superior  of  the 
Diocesan  Seminary,  and  one  of  its  professors.  This  post 
of  honor  he  filled  most  acceptably  till  July,  1866,  when  his 
impaired  health,  never  robust,  obliged  him  to  retire  for  a 
while  for  much  needed  rest  and  medical  treatment.  In  1867, 
he  felt  himself  again  able  to  take  charge  of  a  congregation. 
He  \\a^  accordingly  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Ann's,  Fremont. 
This  char-.-  he  held  till  August,  [868,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  pastorate  of  the  Immaculate-  Conception  congrc- 
tion,  Toledo.  The  present  frame  church,  school  and  brick 
pastoral  residence  were  built  under  his  direction.  In  May. 
[878,  he  was  removed  to  St.  Mary's,  Wakeman,  where  he 
remained  till  obliged  by  sickness   to  cease  all  pastoral   work. 

January,    |NX;.      He  lingered  in  patiently  borne  sickness  at  St. 

Vincent's   Hospital,  Toledo,  until  death   released  him,  March 
[887.     IIi>  remains  are  buried  at  Sandusky. 

Ql  l\\.  Rev.  William,  I  )    1).,  a  native  of  Ireland,  was 

bom  in  Limerick,  October  14,  [839.     For  nine  years  he  was 


1 72  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

a  student  at  the  Propaganda,  Rome,  and  was  there  ordained 
for  the  diocese  of  Dublin.  He  came  from  Cincinnati  to  Cleve- 
land in  September,  1873,  and  was  appointed  one  of  the  pro- 
fessors at  the  Seminary,  but  remained  only  till  the  following 
March.  He  died  at  Valetta,  Isle  of  Malta,  November  25,  1885. 
He  was  an  able  professor,  a  fine  classical  scholar  and  an 
eloquent  preacher. 

263.  REICHERT,  Rev.  Augustine  (Sanguinist),  was  born 
at  Nersloch,  Baden,  February  20,  1831  ;  in  America  since 
1834  ;  ordained  at  New  Rie'gel  for  the  Sanguinists,  by  Bishop 
Rappe,  November  21,  1853;  was  in  this  diocese,  at  Thompson, 
as  assistant,  with  charge  of  neighboring  missions,  from  June, 
1854,  to  November,  1855  ;  again  from  1856  to  1859  as 
pastor  of  Glandorf;  from  i860  to  1863  as  pastor  of  New 
Riegel  ;  and  again  as  pastor  of  Glandorf,  from  1863  to  May, 
1874,  when  he  was  sent  by  his  superior  to  Kansas,  where  he 
is  at  present  doing  pastoral  duty. 

264.  REINHARDT,  Rev.  Joseph,  born  in  Germany  about 
1842,  was  ordained  for  this  diocese  by  Bishop  Rappe,  January 
22,  1865.  New  Bavaria  (Poplar  Ridge)  was  his  first  appoint- 
ment, May,  1865,  to  May,  1867.  For  a  few  months  he  also 
attended  Perrysburg  as  a  mission.  His  next  charge  was 
Upper  Sandusky,  with  Bucyrus  and  Kirby  as  missions. 
Whilst  on  his  way  to  Bucyrus  to  meet  Bishop  Rappe,  who 
had  arranged  to  give  confirmation  there,  he  was  killed,  Feb- 
ruary 22,  1868,  by  being  rudely  thrown  off  a  freight  train  he  had 
boarded  contrary  to  the  railroad  company's  rules— no  passen- 
ger train  being  available  by  which  he  could  reach  Bucyrus  in 
time  for  the  ceremony  at  which  he  intended  to  assist.  His 
untimely  and  sad  death  cast  a  gloom  over  the  entire  com- 
munity of  Upper  Sandusky,  where  he  was  highly  esteemed  by 
all  classes  for  his  amiable  qualities.  His  remains  are  buried 
at  Upper  Sandusky. 

265.  REVIS,  Rev.  Wenceslas,  was  born  at  Wodnau,  Bohe- 
mia;  ordained   in  the  year   1846;  came  to   America  in    1852^ 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  173 

and  was  on  the  mission  in  the  dioceses  of  Philadelphia,  Alton 
and  Nashville.  He  left  Nashville  during  the  civil  war  and 
returned  to  his  native  country.  At  the  close  of  the  war.  in 
1865,  he  went  back  to  Nashville,  remaining  till  1870,  when  he 
accepted  an  invitation  from  Very  Rev.  Administrator  Hannin 
to  take  charge  of  St.  Wenceslas'  (Bohemian)  Congregation, 
Cleveland.  He  came  in  January,  1870,  and  remained  till 
March,  1 S 7 3 .  While  pastor  of  St.  Wenceslas'  he  shared  the 
fate  of  his  predecessor,  Father  Krasney,  by  being  vilified  and 
persecuted  by  his  infidel  countrymen,  and  some  of  his  par- 
ishioners, who  did  all  they  could  to  obstruct  his  pastoral  work 
and  embitter  his  stay  among  them.  Disheartened  he  left  his 
difficult  charge  and  went  to  the  diocese  of  Chicago,  where  he 
remained  till  death,  at  Feehanville,  June  19,  1886.  Father 
Revis  was  a  zealous  priest  and  an  eloquent  preacher. 

266.     RHEINDORFF,  Rev.  Romuald,  (Franciscan),  a  native 

of  the  city  of  Cologne,  was  born  July  22,  1856;  edu- 
cated  by  the  Franciscans  in  Cologne,  Teutopolis,  111.,  and  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  and  ordained  in  St.  Louis  for  their  Order  May  12, 
[883,  by  Bishop  Machebeuf,  of  Denver,  Col.  He  did  pastoral 
work  in  St.  Louis  till  July,  1885.  In  the  following  month  he 
was  sent  to  the  Franciscan  Monaster}-,  Cleveland,  as  assist- 
tant  at  St.  Joseph's  Church.  He  left  Cleveland  in  October, 
[887.      L  now  in  Franciscan  Monaster}-  at  Teutopolis,  111. 

2<>y.  RICHARD,  Rev.  Charles  Hermann  ('Jesuit),  was  born 
at  Osnabrueck,  Hanover,  Ma}-  8,  1834;  ordained  August  25, 
[867;  came  to  America,  October,  [867;  was  stationed  at  St. 
Mary's,  Toledo,  as  assistant  from   [869  to  1872. 

268.  RlNGELE,  Rev.  Jacob  (Sanguinist),  was  born,  1806, 
at  Doettingen,  Canton  Solothurn,  Switzerland;  ordained 
Di  1  mber  21,  [842;  came  to  the  United  States  1  >ecember  ;  1 . 
1843.  He  was  engaged  on  tin-  mission  in  Northern  Ohio 
am!  diocese  <>\  Cleveland  between  [845  and  [865i  and  from 
1870  till  his  death,  December  15.  1871.  Among  his  charges 
were  Peru     184;  ;  Cleveland     [848  49  ;   Dungannon     185 


i74  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

Defiance  (about  1855);  Shelby  Settlement  (1855-56);  Thomp- 
son (1865-66)  and  New  Riegel,  (1867)  in  all  of  which  places  he 
was  full  of  zeal  for  religion,  and  did  faithful  missionary  work. 

269.  ROEDIGER,  Rev.  Edmund  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Kalmerode,  Eichfeld,  Prussia,  in  1857  (?);  ordained  at  Teuto- 
polis,  111.,  May  28,  1882;  in  Cleveland  Monastery  from  July, 
1883,  to  April,  1884.      Is  at  present  on  the   mission  in  China. 

270.  ROESSNER,  Rev.  Clement  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at 
St.  Peter's,  Mercer  county,  Ohio,  September  20,  1849;  edu- 
cated by  and  for  the  Sanguinists  at  Carthagena,  Ohio; 
ordained  January  20,  1876;  was  in  this  diocese  as  pastor  of 
Ottawa,  1876-77;  then  of  New  Riegel  from  July,  1878  to 
August,  1880.  He  died  in  the  diocese  of  Nashville,  October 
1,  1887. 

271.  ROETZER,  Rev.  J.  M.,  was  born  in  Bavaria  about 
1834.  He  came  to  Cleveland  in  1856;  was  received  by  Bishop 
Rappe  as  a  student  for  this  diocese,  and  by  him  ordained 
June  26,  1859.  Was  professor  at  the  seminary  for  a  short  time 
after  his  ordination;  then  pastor  of  Findlay,  i860,  till  March, 
1862,  meanwhile  attending  Fostoria  as  a  mission.  He  was 
next  in  charge  of  French  Creek,  as  resident  pastor,  from 
March  to  September,  1862,  during  that  time  also  attending 
Avon  and  Sheffield.  He  then  left  the  diocese.  Died  a  few 
years  after  in  Michigan.     Date  or  place  of  death  not  recorded. 

272.  ROLLINET,  Rev.  August  Joseph,  was  born,  1796,  at 
Long-Sancey,  diocese  of  Besancon,  France;  studied  for  the 
ministry  at  Aix  la-Chapelle;  was  ordained  about  1820,  and 
after  doing  pastoral  work  in  his  native  diocese  came  to 
America  in  1849.  Remaining  a  few  months  in  Canada,  he 
came  to  Ohio  and  was  appointed  pastor  of  Calmoutier, 
Holmes  county,  which  charge  he  held  till  185 1.  He  then 
joined  the  Society  of  Mary  at  Dayton.  During  the  absence 
of  the  pastor,  Rev.  L.  F.  D'Arcy,  he  had  temporary  charge  of 
the  congregation   at  Louisville,  Stark  county,  June,  1857,  till 


Ursuline  Convent,  Toledo,  Ohio. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  175 

June,  1858.  In  1859  he  left  the  Society  of  Mary  and  again 
received  the  pastorate  of  Calmoutier,  where  he  died  suddenly, 
January  1,  1859.  Father  Rollinet  was  a  most  zealous  priest, 
and  enjoyed  the  esteem  of  all  who  knew  him. 

2~$.  R.OOS,  Rev.  John,  a  Bavarian,  was  born  in  1832,  at 
Dirmstein,  diocese  of  Speyer;  came  to  the  United  States  in 
1850.  After  finishing  his  studies  at  St.  Mary's  Seminary, 
Cleveland,  he  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  June  1,  1856. 
lie  was  sent  to  St.  Ann's,  Fremont,  shortly  after  his  ordina- 
tion, remaining  till  December,  1857.  During  his  pastorate 
the  German  members  of  St.  Ann's  left,  organizing  a  separate 
congregation,  known  as  St.  Joseph's.  From  Fremont  he 
attended  Clyde  and  several  other  missions  in  Sandusky 
county.  December,  1857,  he  was  sent  to  St.  John's,  Canton, 
remaining  till  August,  1858,  when  he  apostatized  and  became 
a  member  and  minister  of  the  Episcopal  sect.  Is  now  and 
has  been  for  man}-  years  a  resident  minister  of  an  Episcopal 
congregation  in  Baltimore,  and  is  known  as  Rev.  Rose. 

274.  ROSENBAUM,  Rev.  Balthasar  (Jesuit),  was  born  at 
Enskirchen,  Rhenish  Prussia,  October  5,  1847;  was  ordained 
in  Liverpool,  ling.,  by  the  Bishop  of  that  diocese,  the  Rt.  Rev. 
Bernard  <  >'Reilly,  August  31,  1877;  was  on  the  mission  in 
England  till  September,  1  SS 5,  when  he  was  sent  by  his  supe- 
rior to  St.  Mary's,  Toledo,  as  assistant,  remaining  till  August, 
[886.      lie  now  resides  at  Buffalo. 

2~y  Roth,  Rev.  Francis  Xavier,  a  native  of  Alsace, 
France,  attended  Avon,  Lorain  count}-,  between  1S4;  and 
[847.  lie  was  next  stationed  at  the  Cathedral  from  Novem- 
ber, [847,  to  February,  [848,  when  he  left  the  diocese.  In 
1854  he  was  in  the  diocese  of  Detroit,  where  he  died. 

Roupp,    Rev.    Nicholas,    was   born    at    Puttelan 
Lorraine,   France,   April  25,   1825;    studied   in  the  Diocesan 
Seminaries  of  Metz  and  Cleveland.     Was  ordained  by  Bishop 
Rappe,    August    1 5i    1849.     Shell)}-   Settlement    was   his   first 


176  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

appointment,  August  I,  1849,  to  February,  185  1,  with  Galion 
as  a  mission.  He  was  then  called  to  the  Cathedral,  Cleveland, 
to  attend  to  the  Catholic  Germans,  remaining  till  June,  1853, 
when  he  received  the  pastorate  of  St.  Peter's,  Norwalk.  This 
charge  he  held  till  September,  1854,  when  he  was  sent 
to  Maumee,  where  he  remained  till  June,  1858.  He  was 
appointed  pastor  of  St.  Mary's,  Massillon,  December,  1858, 
after  a  six  months'  visit  to  his  native  country.  From  Mas- 
sillon he  was  transferred  to  St.  Mary's,  Sandusky,  November, 
1863,  and  remained  till  he  left  the  diocese,  June,  1864;  returned 
to  the  diocese  of  Metz,  where  he  is  still  engaged  in  the  min- 
istry. 

277.  Rudolf,  Rev.  George  P.,  was  born  at  Ems,  Canton 
Chur,  Switzerland,  September  13,  1843.  After  completing 
his  studies  in  the  Diocesan  Seminary,  Cleveland,  he  was 
ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  May  16,  1868.  He  had  the  fol- 
lowing pastoral  appointments  in  this  diocese  :  Defiance,  St. 
John's,  May,  1868,  to  August,  1869;  Port  Clinton,  with  La 
Prairie,  Marblehead  and  Toussaint  as  missions,  from  Novem- 
ber, 1869,  to  March,  1871  ;  Liverpool,  to  September,  1872  ; 
Milan,  to  January,  1875  ;  Clyde,  to  March,  1879;  Findlay,  to 
March,  18.81,  when  he  was  relieved  of  all  pastoral  duty.  He 
then  left  the  diocese  and  ministry. 

278.  Ruff,  Rev.  Engelbert  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at  St. 
Maergen,  Baden,  October  5,  1817  ;  came  to  this  country  in 
1845  ;  was  ordained  at  Thompson,  Seneca  county,  for  the 
Sanguinists,  by  Bishop  Rappe,  February  23,  1848.  He 
labored  on  the  mission  in  this  diocese,  in  the  following  places: 
New  Riegel,  1848  to  1854;  Thompson  and  neigboring  mis- 
sions till  1867,  when  he  was  sent  by  his  superior  to  missions 
in  other  dioceses.  He  is  now  stationed  at  Lawrenceburg, 
Tennessee. 

279.  Russ,  Rev.  Bernard  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at  Min- 
ster, Auglaize  county,  Ohio,  December  25,  185 1;  made  his 
studies    at  St.   Charles'   Seminary,    Carthagena,    Ohio ;    was 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  177 

ordained  at  Cincinnati  by  Archbishop  Purcell,  May  17,  1879  ; 
was  assistant  at  Glandorf,  Putnam  county,  Ohio,  from  May 
3 1,  1S79,  to  November  15,  1880.  He  was  then  sent  on  the 
mission  in  Kansas,  remaining  till  January,  1883.  Since  then 
he  has  had  various  positions  in  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati.  Is 
at  present  stationed  in  Mercer  county,  Ohio. 

280.  SAENDERL,  Rev.  Simon  (Redemptorist),  was  born 
at  Malgersdorf,  Bavaria,  September  30,  1800;  ordained  June  2. 
1825;  came  to  the  United  States,  March,  1832;  was  stationed 
at  Peru,  Huron  county,  between  1835-36,  and  occasionally 
attended  Wolf's  Creek  (New  Riegel),  during  this  time;  was 
pastor  of  St.  John's  Canton,  1836-37;  left  the  Redemptorists 
in  1847,  and  joined  the  Trappists  at  Gethsemani,  Ky.,  where 
he  received  the  Habit,  March  15,  1852.  Died  at  Gethsemani 
February  22,   1879. 

281.  SALAUN,  Rev.  John  F.,  was  born  at  Finistere, 
France,  November  18,  1818;  was  educated  in  France,  and 
ordained  at  Point  Croix,  diocese  of  Ouimper,  by  Bishop 
Graverond,  June  10,  1843.  Came  to  the  diocese  of  Cleveland 
December,  [855,  and  shortly  after  his  arrival  he  was  appointed 
Superior  of  St.  Mary's  Seminary.  This  position  he  held  with 
distinction  till  August,  1864,  when  he  left  the  diocese.  For 
many  years  he  has  been  doing  pastoral  duty  at  South  Orange, 
diocese  of  Newark,  X.  J.,  where  he  is  now  stationed.  Whilst 
superior  of  Cleveland  Seminary  he  had  charge  of  the  follow- 
ing missions:  Hudson,  Euclid  and  Newburgh  (Cleveland). 

2^>2.      SANNER,    Rev.    Sebastian,    was    born,   educated   and 

ordained  in  Germany.      lb'  was   received    into  this  diocese  by 

Bishop    Rappe,    in    1848,    and    sent    to   Calmoutier,    Holmes 

count)-.     In    1849  he  was  appointed  assistant   to  Rev.  Philip 

»r   of    St.   Francis   de  Sales'  church,  Toledo,  and 

ended  the  Catholic  Germans  residing  tjiere.  In  [850  he 
was  given  the  pastorate  of  St.  Joseph's,  Maumee,  from  which 
place  he  attended  New  Bavaria,  Si*  Mile  Woods,  Defiance 
and    Providence.      December,    1853,   he   was   transferred   to 


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Shelby  Settlement,  where  he  remained  till  he  left  the  diocese, 
September,  1854. 

283.  SCHALK,  Rev.  Frederick  (Sanguinist),  was  born  in 
New  Riegel,  Seneca  county,  Ohio,  March  2,  1850;  educated 
by  the  Sanguinists  at  Carthagena,  Mercer  county,  Ohio, 
and  for  them  ordained  by  Archbishop  Purcell,  January  17, 
1873;  was  pastor  of  Ottawa,  Putnam  county,  from  February, 
1873,  to  February,  1876.  Is  at  present  stationed  at  Wapa- 
koneta,  diocese  of  Cincinnati. 

284.  SCHEDLER,  Rev.  Caspar  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at 
Schwabeck,  Bavaria,  May  6,  1842;  came  to  the  United  States  in 
1866,  and  was  ordained  for  the  Sanguinists  by  Archbishop 
Purcell,  November  21,  1868.  Was  in  this  diocese  as  assistant 
at  New  Riegel  from  August,  1869,  to  September,  1870,  and 
during  that  time  also  attended  Big  Springs.  He  has  since 
been  in  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati. 

285.  SCHELBERT,  Rev.  Aloysius  (Sanguinist),  was  born 
at  Monthenthal,  Canton  Schwyz,  Switzerland,  October  12, 
1813;  ordained  July  28,  1850,  and  came  to  this  country 
October  of  the  same  year.  He  was  in  the  diocese  of  Cleve- 
land between  October,  1853,  and  November,  1864,  viz.;  at  Glan- 
dorf  till  November,  1858  and  at  New  Riegel  till  1864.  His 
superior  then  appointed  him  pastor  of  Himmelgarten,  Mercer 
county,  O.  In  1865  he  was  sent  to  St.  Joseph's,  same  county, 
where  he  remained  till  July,  1876,  when  he  returned  to 
Europe  (Schellenberg,  Austria),  remaining  there  as  pastor 
and  local  superior  of  the  Sanguinist  Convent  till  his  death, 
April  10,  1878. 

286.  Scherer,  Rev.  Peter  D.,  a  Swiss,  was  born  at  Lies- 
berg,  June  29,  1840;  made  his  studies  for  the  ministry  in  his 
native  town  and  at  Mt.  Calvary,  Wis.,  with  the  Capuchins, 
for  whose  Order  he  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Henni,  July  25, 
1863.  As  a  Capuchin  he  held  various  positions  from  1863  to 
1886,  eight  in  all.     December,    1887,  the   Holy  See  permitted 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  179 

him  to  become  a  secular  priest.  As  such  he  was  received 
pro  tempore  by  Bishop  Gilmour,  who  appointed  him  resident 
pastor  of  Independence,  with  charge  of  Brighton  as  a  mission. 
He  remained  till  June,  1888,  when  he  was  recalled  to  the  dio- 
cese of  Solothurn,  Switzerland,  to  which  he  had  been  assigned, 
when  secularized  by  the  Holy  See. 

287.  SCHILL,  Rev.  Kilian,  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at 
Henweiler,  Baden,  July  8,  1854;  educated  at  St.  Charles' 
Seminary,  Carthagena,  Ohio,  and  there  ordained  by  Arch- 
bishop Elder,  June  8,  1882;  was  assistant  at  Glandorf,  from 
September,  1882,  to  July,  1885.  Is  now  stationed  in  Mercer 
count}',  diocese  of  Cincinnati. 

288.  SCHLOESSER,  Rev.  Kilian  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 

Cologne,  Rhenish  Prussia,  May  9,  1826;  ordained  March  it, 
[857;  in  the  United  States  since  1 860.  Was  superior  of 
Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  1871  to  1879,  a"d 
pastor  of  St.  Joseph's,  same  city,  from  1871  to  July,  1885. 
During  his  pastorate  in  Cleveland  the  Franciscan  Monastery 
and  the  present  church  of  St.  Joseph's  congregation  were 
built.  lie  is  at  present  pastor  at  Santa  Barbara,  in  the  dio- 
cese  of  Monterey,  Cal. 

289.  SCHMIDT,  Rev.  — ,  (Sanguinist?);  at  Thompson  from 
[856  to  [857.      No  other  record  of  him. 

290.  SCHMITZ,  Rev.  Meinolph  (Franciscan),  was  born  in 
the  city  of  Cologne,  Germany,  February  [6,  [840;  came  to 
America,  December,  [867;  ordained  February  7,  1868;  was  a 
member  o\  tin-  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  1875*0 

1X711.       Is  now    stationed  in  Chicago. 

S<  n\i  ii'i  1:,  Rev.  Thomas  (Franciscan),  was  born 
1 1  cember  ji,  [850,  al  Neustadt,  Silesia;  in  the  United  States 
sinc<  October,  1869;  ordained  June  [8,  [878;  was  attached  to 
the  Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  July,  188  1 ,  to  July, 
1885,  during  which  time  he  was  also  pastor  ol  Parma  .in^ 
Independent  ll«-  is  now  a  secular  priest  and  stationed  in 

the  dio(  1  si-  « >i  t  irand  Rapids. 


180  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

292.  SCHOCH,  Rev.  Theobald  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at 
St.  Peter's,  Mercer  county,  O.,  July  24,  1848;  educated  for  and 
by  the  Sanguinists  at  Carthagena,  O.;  ordained  by  Bishop 
Dwenger,  January  18,  1873.  He  was  in  the  diocese  of  Cleve- 
land from  February,  1873,  to  September,  1875,  as  pastor  of 
St.  Peter's,  Big  Springs,  and  of  St.  Joseph's,  Crawfordsville, 
till  June,  1875.  At  present  he  has  charge  of  one  of  the  San- 
guinist missions  in  Mercer  county,  Ohio. 

293.  SCHORi;,  Rev.  Basil,  was  born,  18 10,  in  Adams 
county,  Pa.;  ordained  by  Bishop  Purcell  at  Cincinnati,  May 
20,  1837.  Shortly  after  his  ordination  he  was  sent  to  Chip- 
pewa, near  Doylestown,  Wayne  county,  from  which  place  he 
attended  the  missions  of  Canal  Fulton,  St.  John's,  Canton 
(1837),  Massillon  (1843),  Peru  (1849),  Liverpool,  Randolph, 
Wooster  (1842).  In  1843  he  left  Ohio  and  returned  to  Penn- 
sylvania, where  he  died  as  pastor  of  York,  April  4,  1871. 

294.  SCHWEIGER,  Rev.  Andrew  J.  M.,  was  stationed 
in  Cleveland,  from  October,  1852,  till  some  time  in  1853,  to 
minister  to  the  spiritual  wants  of  the  Catholic  Germans.  No 
other  record  of  him. 

295.  SCHWEITZER,  Rev.  Clement  (Sanguinist),  was  born 
in  Baden,  Germany,  18 10;  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe  for  the 
Sanguinists  in  1849;  was  stationed  at  Thompson,  Seneca 
county,  from  1849  till  his  death,  April  23,  1850. 

296.  SCHWICK,  Rev.  Joseph  (Jesuit),  was  assistant  at  St. 
Mary's  Church,  Toledo,  from  November,  1877,  to  October  12, 
1878.  On  latter  date  he  left  the  Jesuits  and  became  a  secular 
priest.       He  is  now  stationed  in  the  diocese  of  Grand  Rapids. 

297.  SEEBERGER,  Rev.  Cosmas  (Sanguinist),  was  born 
at  Frastanz,  near  Feldkirch,  Austria,  March  4,  1840;  in  the 
United  States  since  January,  1866;  ordained  for  the  Sanguin- 
ists June  30,  1874;  was  assistant  at  New  Riegel  and  pastor  of 
Big  Springs  from  October,  1875,  to  December,  1876.  He  is 
now  in  the  diocese  of  Kansas  City,  Mo. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  1S1 

298.  SOMMER,  Rev.  Severin,  was  received  by  Bishop 
Rappe,  October,  1854,  and  appointed  resident  pastor  of 
Shelby  Settlement,  where  he  remained  about  a  year,  when  he 
left  the  diocese.     No  other  record  of  him. 

299.  SPICHER,  Rev.  Peter  (Jesuit),  was  born  in  Switzer- 
land, Canton  Freiburg,  December  22,  181 1.  He  joined  the 
Society  of  Jesus,  October  I,  1832,  and  was  ordained  in  1842. 
After  the  expulsion  of  the  Jesuits  from  Switzerland  he  came 
to  America  in  1848,  and  was  appointed  professor  of  theology 
for  the  members  of  the  Society  of  Jesus  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.  So 
highly  were  his  learning,  his  virtues,  and  his  zeal  in  the  care 
of  souls  appreciated,  that  he  was  put  first  on  the  list  of  candi- 
dates for  the  Episcopal  See  to  be  erected  in  Quincy,  later 
transferred  to  Alton,  111.  Aware  of  this  he  returned  to 
Europe.  For  many  years  he  was  superior  of  several  Houses 
of  the  Society  in  Germany,  and  was  also  for  a  time  Master  of 
Novices.  In  1868  he  returned  to  this  country  to  found  a 
mission  of  the  German  Jesuits,  of  which  he  was  appointed 
first  superior  the  following  year.  He  took  up  his  residence 
at  Toledo,  O.,  where  Bishop  Rappe  had  given  the'  Jesuit 
Fathers  of  the  Buffalo  Province  charge  of  St.  Mary's  Church. 
Relieved  at  his  request  in  1870  of  the  office  of  superior,  he 
went  to  Buffalo,  N.  Y .,  where  he  died  at  St.  Ann's  Church  on 
March  29,  1874.  leather  Spicher  was  a  man  of  rare  charity, 
meekness  and  humility, — qualities  which  endeared  him  every- 
where to  clergy  and  laity. 

300.  SPIERINGS,  Rev.  Gerard  Augustine,  a  native  of  Hol- 
land, was  born  at  I'den,  August  24,  [828,  where  also  he  was 
educated    for   the  ministry.      He  was  ordained  by  Mgr.  Caroli, 

Bishop  of  Cambray,   Prance,  November   17,   1855.     October, 
65,    he   was  received   into   the  diocese  of  Cleveland,   and 

appointed  pastor  of  Upper  Sandusky.       There  he  remained  till 

April,   1867,  when  he  was  scut   to  Dungannon.      This  charge 

he  retained  till  [869,  when  he  left  the  diocese.     While  pastor 

Upper  Sandusky  he  also  attended   Kirby     [865  66),  and 

Bucyrus    November,   [865,  April,   [867).     Since   [869  he  has 


1 82  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

been  on  the  mission   in  New  Jersey,  and  is  at  present  pastor 
of  Keyport,  diocese  of  Trenton. 

^501.  STEIN,  Rev.  George,  a  native  of  Baden,  was  in  this 
diocese  from  1852  to  1858,  first  as  pastor  of  Randolph,  till  1857, 
then  for  a  few  months  in  1858,  pastor  of  St.  Mary's,  Massillon, 
when  he  left  the  diocese.     No  other  record  of  him. 

302.  STREMLER,  Rev.  James,  D.  D.,  was  born,  educated 
and  ordained  in  Lorraine,  France.  About  1859  he  received 
the  doctorate  at  Rome,  where  he  was  chaplain  for  three  years 
of  the  collegiate  church  of  St.  Louis  of  France.  Came  to 
this  diocese  from  Laval  LTniversity,  Quebec,  and  was  superior 
of  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland,  from  September,  1866,  to 
August,  1870,  when  he  left  ;  then  affiliated  with  the  diocese 
of  Alton,  and  later  with  Vincennes,  (1873),  where  he  now  is 
as  pastor  of  Floyd  Knobs,  Ind. 

303.  STROKER,  Rev.  Francis,  was  born  at  Strokestown, 
County  Rosscommon,  Ireland,  in  1829.  He  made  his  theo- 
logical studies  at  the  Seminary  in  Cleveland,  and  was  ordained 
by  Bishop  Rappe,  December  11,  1853.  Dungannon  was  his 
first  appointment,  December,  1853,  to  June,  1855.  He  was 
then  transferred  to  Summitville,  where  he  remained  till  April, 
1856.  Whilst  resident  pastor  of  Dungannon  and  Summitville, 
he  also  had  charge  of  several  missions:  Niles- (1853-56),  War- 
ren (1853-56),  and  St.  Columba's,  Youngstown,  (1853-54). 
April,  1856,  he  left  this  diocese  and  was  received  by  Bishop 
Henni,  of  Milwaukee,  in  whose  diocese  he  remained  as  pastor 
of  Milford,  Wis.,  till  death,  some  time  in  1864.  He  was  killed 
by  railway  cars. 

304.  STUECKER,  Rev.  Ouirinus  (Franciscan),  a  native  ot 
Germany,  was  born  at  Bidefeld,  August  6,  185 1;  educated  for 
the  sacred  ministry  at  Teutopolis  and  St.  Louis;  ordained  in 
latter  city  for  the  Franciscans  by  Bishop  Ryan,  June  21,  1879. 
Owing  to  illness  shortly  after  his  ordination  he  was  unable  to 
do  duty  till  August,  1880,  when  he   attended    pastoral  work 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  183 

at  Teutopolis  till  October,  1887.  He  was  then  sent  to  the 
Franciscan  Monastery,  Cleveland,  where  he  remained  from 
October  13,  1887,  to  August  7,  1888.  His  superiors  then  sent 
him  on  the  mission  to  Hermann,  Mo. 

305.  SULLIVAN,  Rev.  Francis  Augustine,  was  born  in 
Ireland,  August  2,  1837.  He  was  received  by  Bishop  Rappe, 
and  after  a  few  years'  stay  in  the  Diocesan  Seminary,  was  sent 
to  the  Sulpitian  Seminary  at  Paris  to  complete  his  studies. 
There  he  remained  about  three  years.  On  his  return  he  was 
ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  December  2,  i860.  January  after 
his  ordination  he  was  appointed  one  of  the  professors  at  St. 
Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland,  and  for  a  few  months  attended 
Ravenna  and  Newburgh  (Cleveland).  In  the  latter  place  he 
commenced  the  erection  of  the  old  church  (Holy  Rosary)  on 
North  Park  street.  Owing  to  failing  health  he  resigned  his 
position  as  professor  and  accepted  the  pastorate  of  St.  Mary's, 
Elyria,  August,  1863,  with  charge  of  Vermillion  as  a  mission. 
He  died  of  consumption  at  Elyria,  February  4,  1864. 

306.  SUTER,  Rev.  Aloysius  (Jesuit),  was  born  at  Mutathal, 
Canton  Schwyz,  Switzerland,  February  16,  1 835 ;  ordained 
September  10,  [867;  in  this  country  since  September,  1868; 
was  assistant  at  St.  Mary's,  Toledo,  from  1876  to  1880.  He 
is  now  stationed  in  the  diocese  of  Davenport,  low  a. 

307.  THIELE,  Rev.  Henry  L.,  was  born  in  the  diocese  of 
Miiinst. r,  Germany,  [819;  ordained  by  Bishop  Baraga  for  the 
diocese  of  Marquette,  in    [854;  received  into  the  diocese  of 

veland  in  [86l  and  sent  to  Akron,  where  he  organized  St. 
Bernard's  congregation,  remaining  till  May,  [863.  His  next 
appointment  was  St.  Joseph's  congregation,  Massillon,  wh< 
first  resident  pastor  in-  was,  July,  [863,  to  December,  [8 
During  this  time  he  also  attended  Navarre  (Bethlehem). 
I  rom  January  to  June,  1865,  he  had  charge  of  St.  Martin's, 
Liverpool.  He  then  returned  to  the  diocese  of  Marquette 
where  he  did  pastoral  duty  till  [873,  when  he  went  to  Notre 
Dame,  [nd.     There   he  died  August    17,  of  same  year.     He 


i84  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

was  a  man  of  fine  literary  taste   and  wrote   much  for  maga- 
zines and  other  periodicals. 

308.  THIENPONT,  Rev.  Emanuel,  a  native  of  Belgium, 
was  ordained  in  Cincinnati,  January  20,  1833,  by  Bishop 
Rosati,  of  St.  Louis.  In  1835  he  was  also  at  St.  Mary's,  Tiffin, 
for  six  months  as  successor  to  Rev.  E.  Quinn.  From  1836  to 
1842  he  was  pastor  of  the  Catholic  Germans  of  Dayton.  In 
1837  he  was  sent  to  attend  the  missions  along  the  Miami 
Canal  as  far  north  as  Toledo.  Next  he  had  charge  of  Ports- 
mouth, Steubenville  and  other  places.  Died  October  19,  1873, 
aged  about  70  years. 

309.  THOMA,  Rev.  John  M.  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at 
Werbach,  Baden,  August  13,  1833;  educated  at  Rome,  and 
there  ordained  for  the  Sanguinists,  August  19,  1857.  After 
doing  pastoral  duty  in  Europe  till  1868,  he  came  to  this  dio- 
cese during  the  same  year,  and  from  Thompson,  under  direc- 
tion of  the  Provincial  of  the  Sanguinists,  attended  St.  Sebas- 
tian's congregation,  Sherman  (Bismarck),  from  July,  1868,  to 
July,  1869.  He  then  returned  to  Europe,  but  came  back  to 
this  country,  February,  1886,  as  a.  secular  priest,  and  was 
received  into  the  diocese  of  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  where,  as  pastor 
of  New  Hirrlingen,  he  died  April  18,  1887. 

310.  TlGHE,  Rev.  Denis,  was  born  in  Ireland;  received 
into  the  Diocesan  Seminary,  Cleveland,  about  1855.  Before 
completing  his  studies  for  the  ministry  he  was  ordained  by 
Bishop  Rappe,  in  1857,  and  sent  to  Holy  Angels',  Sandusky, 
as  assistant  to  Father  Caron.  In  1859  he  was  appointed  pas- 
tor of  Summitville,  remaining  till  September,  1864,  meanwhile 
attending  East  Liverpool,  and  Wellsville  as  missions.  He 
was  then  appointed  first  resident  pastor  of  St.  Bridget's, 
Cleveland,  which  position  he  held  till  his  death,  June  19,  1866. 
His  simplicity  of  character  and  earnest  piety  made  him  a 
living  example  for  those  committed  to  his  spiritual  guidance. 

311.  TsCHENHENS,  Rev.  F.  X.  (Redemptorist),  was  born 
in  Holland,  July  24,  1801;  ordained  August  15,  1827.  He 
was  among  the  first  Redemptorists  that  came  to  the  United 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR   CLERGY.  i,s5 

States,  landing  June  20,  1832.  He  went  directly  to  Cincinnati, 
where  he  resided  for  some  time.  In  1834  Bishop  Purcell  sent 
him  to  Peru,  Huron  county,  whence  he  attended  Tiffin,  New 
Riegel,  McCutchcnville,  Norwalk,  Sandusky  and  Fremont. 
He  had  charge  of  Peru  till  1839,  but  returned  in  1841  from 
Pittsburgh,  where  he  had  been  appointed  superior  of  a 
Redemptorist  convent  he  established  there.  He  remained 
for  nearly  one  year,  when  he  was  recalled  to  Pittsburgh. 
Wherever  he  labored  on  the  mission  in  Northern  Ohio  his 
memory  is  revered  by  the  old  Catholic  settlers  yet  living,  as 
that  of  a  saintly,  self-sacrificing  minister  of  God.  His  last 
visit  to  Ohio  was  in  December,  1858,  when  he  preached  the 
funeral  sermon  of  a  dear  friend  and  former  parishioner  of  his, 
who  died  in  Tiffin.  lie  was  a  priest  devoted  to  his  work  with 
apostolic  zeal.      He  died  at  Baltimore,  May  10,  1877. 

312.  Cm. M.\\\,  Rev.  John  Baptist,  was  born  at  Con- 
stance, Baden,  February  19,  1804;  ordained  at  Freiburg, 
Baden,  by  Archbishop  Bernard  Boll,  September  17,  1828. 
Till  [850  he  did  pastoral  duty  in  the  diocese  of  Freiburg, 
when  he  concluded  to  go  to  America,  owing  to  the  continued 
disturbed  condition  of  his  native  Baden,  caused  by  the  Revo- 
lution in  184S.  In  1852  he  was  received  by  Bishop  Rappe 
and  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's,  Tiffin,  where  he  built 
the  fust  pastoral  residence.  From  Tiffin  he  also  attended 
Liberty,  [853  5'»-  He  remained  at  Tiffin  from  September, 
1852,  till  May,  1856,  when  he  was  transferred  to  St.  Peter's, 
Canton.  He  remained  there  from  June,  [856,  till  June,  [864, 
when  he  was  appointed  pastor  ol  St.  Mary's,  Sandusky,  where 
he  resided  till  he  left  the  diocese  to  return  to  his  native 
country,  July,  [865.  lie  died  at  Bonndorf,  Baden,  February 
[8,  [882.  Father  Chlmann  was  a  man  of  varied  and  deep 
learning  and  an  eloquent  preacher. 

;i  ;.  Van  den  Broi  K,  Rev.  John  Sanguinis!  ,  was  horn 
at  <  Iss,  Province  of  Nord  Braband,  Holland,  December  ;.  18 19; 
was  ordained  at  Feldkirch,  June  19,  [843,  and  came  to  the 
United  States   in    December  of  same  year.     He  had  pastoral 


1 86  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

charge  of  the  following  places  in  this  diocese  :  Randolph,  about 
1845;  assistant  at  Louisville,  with  charge  of  New  Berlin,  1848  to 
1849;  Tiffin,  St.  Joseph's,  1850;  French  Creek  and  Avon,  [851 
to  1853;  New  Riegel,  1854  to  1856;  Liverpool,  1859  to  1861. 
Since  then  he  has  been  in  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati. 

314.  Van  de  Weyer,  Rev.  A.  F.  (Dominican),  a  native 
of  Holland,  attended  Dungannon,  between  November,  1833, 
and  April,  1835,  and  Louisville,  Stark  county,  from  Canton, 
between  1835  and  1838.      No  other  record  of  him. 

315.  VlERE,  Rev.  Christian,  was  born  at  Osnabrueck, 
Prussia,  October  9,  1831  ;  ordained  March  14,  1856  ;  came  to 
America  in  1865.  He  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Cleve- 
land in  1866,  and  appointed  pastor  of  Fort  Jennings,  remain- 
ing till  September,  1867,  when  he  was  made  pastor  of  St. 
Mary's,  Toledo.  In  August,  1869,  he  was  transferred  to  St. 
John's,  Defiance,  of  which  charge  he  was  relieved  by  Bishop 
Gilmour,  October,  1878.  He  then  left  the  ministry,  and  now 
resides  at  Fort  Jennings,  Putnam  county,  O. 

316.  VlGEAUT,  Rev.  Alfred,  a  Canadian,  was  born  at  St. 
Mary  de  Monnoir,  Province  of  Quebec,  May  10,  1844;  ordained 
at  Rimouski  by  Bishop  Langevin,  October  12,  1873;  was  in 
this  diocese  as  pastor  of  Toussaint  and  La  Prairie,  from  June, 
1 88 1,  to  February,  1883.  He  then  left  the  diocese  and  was 
received  into  the  Vicariate  of  Dakota. 

317.  VOISARD,  Rev.  Joseph  A.,  was  born  at  Indevilliers, 
(Doubs)  France,  June  29,  1828;  ordained  at  Besancon,  France, 
September  18,  1858.  Came  to  the  diocese  of  Toronto, 
November  of  same  year.  Was  received  into  the  diocese  of 
Cleveland,  September,  1865,  and  appointed  pastor  of  St. 
Ann's,  Fremont,  which  he  found  in  a  disturbed  and  rebellious 
condition.  He  soon  became  dissatisfied  with  his  charge  and 
returned  to  Canada  in  April,  1866,  and  has  been  there  ever 
since,  doing  pastoral  duty — now  at  Fort  Erie,  Ontario. 

318.  VOEM,  Rev.  Frederick  A.,  a  native  of  Baden,  was 
ordained  at  Cincinnati  by   Bishop  Purcell,    December,    i860. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  187 

He  was  in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  from  Jul}-,  1866,  to  March, 
[867,  as  pastor  of  Millersville.  He  was  next  at  Goshen,  Ind., 
diocese  of  Fort  Wayne,  for  a  short  time  and  then  disap- 
peared.     Xo  other  record  of  him. 

319.  VUILLEMOT,  Rev.  F.,  was  born  in  the  diocese 
of  Nancy,  Lorraine,  about  1834;  was  ordained  at  Nancy  in 
[859;  came  to  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  April,  1864;  was 
assistant  to  Rev.  L.  Hoffer,  at  Louisville,  from  May  to  July  of 
same  year.  Then  he  was  sent  to  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleve- 
land, where  he  taught  philosophy  for  a  few  months.  Returned 
to  France  in   1865.  where  he  is  at  present. 

320.  WALSH,  Rev.  Francis  (Basilian),  was  born  at  Kings- 
ton; Ontario,  in  1^43;  was  ordained  at  Louisville,  Stark 
count)-,  for  the  Basilians,  by  Bishop  Rappe;    was  at  Louisville 

liege,  as  professor,  about  four  years,   [868-72.      He  is  now 

stationed  in  Colorado. 

J2I.  WALSH,  Rev.  Thomas,  born  in  County  Cork,  Ire- 
land, about  [830,  was  ordained  by  Bishop  Rappe,  January, 
[854,  and  appointed  assistant  at  the  Cathedral,  whence  he 
also  attended  Berea  for  a  few  months  in  1854.  He  remained 
at  the  Cathedral  till  December,  1856,  when  he  went  to  the 
dio(  of  Alton,  111.  He  was  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's  Church, 
Cairo,  III.  Whilst  preaching  he  suddenly  took  seriously  ill 
and  shortly  after  died,  March  5,  [863.  He  was  a  fine  preacher 
and  of  amiable  disposition.  Whilst  at  the  Cathedral,  Cleve- 
land, he  was  the  ordinary  confessor  of  the  students  at  the 
Seminary,  by  whom  he  was  loved  and  highly  esteemed  as  a 
wise  spiritual  direct  »r.  m 

Walsh,   Rev.  Thomas  J.,   was  bom   near  Wexford, 
inty  Wexford,  Ireland,  in  [828;  was  educated  for  the  min- 
istry in  Wexford  <  College,  and  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  ( ileveland; 
ordained    l>>     Bishop   Rappe,    July     -,    [852,   and    appointed 
toi    ol   St.  Ann's,    Fremont,  remaining  till    [856,  when    he 
was  sent  to  St.  Vincent's,  Akron.     From  Akron   he  attended 


1 88  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

Ravenna.  In  1858  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  Summitville, 
where  he  remained  till  1859,  when  he  was  received  into 
the  diocese  of  Wheeling.  Some  time  later  he  affiliated  with 
the  diocese  of  Alton,  and  lastly  with  that  of  St.  Joseph, 
Mo.  In  these  three  dioceses  he  labored  on  the  missions 
about  twenty-two  years,  the  last  two  years  as  pastor  of  St. 
Patrick's,  in  the  city  of  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  where  he  died  almost 
suddenly  November  27,  188 1,  after  ailing  about  sixteen 
months  of  heart  disease. 

323.  WARDV,  Rev.  Charles  Thaddeus,  was  born,  educated 
and  ordained  in  France.  He  came  to  this  diocese  from  St. 
Catharine's,  diocese  of  Toronto,  July,  1865,  and  was  sent  to 
Port  Clinton,  with  charge  of  La  Prairie  and  Toussaint  as 
missions.  He  remained  till  Jul)*,  1866.  October  of  same 
year  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's,  Toledo,  which 
charge  he  held  till  1868,  meanwhile  attending  Sylvania;  also 
the  Asylum  and  Ursuline  Convent,  Toledo,  as  chaplain.  In 
1870  he  was  sent  to  Kelley's  Island,  remaining  there  till  1874. 
During  his  pastorate  of  this  place  he  also  attended  Put-in- 
Bay.  New  Bavaria  (Poplar  Ridge),  was  his  next  appoint- 
ment, where  he  remained  till  he  left  the  diocese,  October, 
1875.  He  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Fort  Wayne, 
where  he  remained  till  in  1879,  when  he  joined  the  Benedic- 
tines. Died  at  Monte  Casino  Priory,  near  Covington,  Ky., 
October  29,  1880.  He  was  a  zealous  priest.  Although  he 
learned  the  English  language  late  in  life  he  had  perfect  com- 
mand of  it,  speaking  and  writing  it  with  greatest  ease. 

324.  WEBER,  Rev.  Peter  (Sanguinist),  was  born  in  Ger- 
man)'. Date  and  place  of  birth  or  ordination  not  recorded. 
Had  charge  of  St.  Joseph's  congregation,  Randolph,  from 
185 1  to  1853;  Harrisburg  from  1853  to  1854,  with  New  Ber- 
lin as  a  mission.  He  attended  the  Catholic  Germans  of 
Cleveland,  between  October,  1850  and  March,  185 1;  Avon 
and  French  Creek  in  1851-54.  In  1854  he  left  the  diocese  and 
the  Sanguinists;  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Vincennes, 
where  he  was  appointed  pastor  of  New  Alsace,  Ind.  No 
other  record  of  him. 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  189 

325.  WEIKMANN,  Rev.  John  Baptist,  a  native  of  Wuert- 
temberg,  was  born  at  Gmuend,  June  24,  181  1;  studied  at  Ell- 
wangen,  Rottweil  and  Tuebin^en;  was  ordained  September 
12,  1838;  came  to  the  United  States,  December,  1855,  and 
was  appointed  by  Bishop  Rappe  as  pastor  of  St.  Peter's, 
Canton.  This  position  lie  held  for  about  six  weeks,  till  Feb- 
ruary 26,  1X56,  when  he  was  dismissed.  He  then  went  to  the 
Benedictine  Convent  in  Westmoreland  county,  Pa.  April, 
[856,  he  was  received  into  the  diocese  of  Milwaukee,  where 
he  held  several  charges,  till   November,  1S61.     He  then  affili- 

d  with  the  diocese  of  Yincennes,  and  in  1863  with  that 
"i  Dubuque.  In  last  mentioned  diocese  he  remained  till  hi^ 
death,  as  pastor  of  Xew  Vienna,  Iowa,  October  11,  1870. 

326.  Weis,  Rev.  Bernardine  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Mursbach,  Bavaria,  October  14,  185  1;  came  with  his  parents 
to  the  United  States  in  1852;  was  ordained  December  27, 
1874;  in  Cleveland  Monastery  from  1880  to  1882.  At  present 
he  is  in  the  diocese  of  St.  Louis,  Mo. 

My.  Wkiss,  Rev.  Paulinus  (Franciscan),  born  at  Lindau, 
diocese  of  Augsburg,  March  21,  1831;  in  the  United  States 
since  [862;  ordained  November  9,  1865;  was  in  the  Fran- 
ciscan Monastery,  Cleveland,  from  1882  to  July,  1 S S 5 .  Ik- 
is  now  in  the  diocese  of  Chicago,  111. 

528.  \\  11  111:1. mi,  Rev.  Titer  (Sanguinist),  a  native  of 
Luxemberg,  was  horn  at  Wellenstein,  March  [8,  1  s  1 7 ;  made 
his  ecclesiastical  studies  at  Thompson  and  Xew  Riegel.  lie 
was  ordained  at  Tiffin  by  Bishop  Rappe,  January  27,  [851. 
He  was  stationed  in  this  diocese  from  [853  to  [856,  [884  to 
[886,  September,  1887  to  September,  1  sxs, — first  at  rhompson 
for  three  years,  then  at  Glandorf  for  one  year,  and  again  at 
Thompson  for  nearly  three  years,  in  each  of  which  places  he 
wa  ant  pastor.     He  is  now  in  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati. 

I      W111.1.    Rev.    Willibald    (Sanguinist),  was  born   at 
Ems,  Switzerland,  in    [820.      lie  came  to  America,   August, 

185O,  and  was  ordained  lor  the  Saneaiinists   l>\    Bishop  Rappe, 


i9o  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

January,  185  1.  Owing  to  ill  health,  even  at  his  ordination, 
he  was  never  able  to  do  much  of  pastoral  work.  He  was  sta- 
tioned at  Glandorf  till  the  autumn  of  1853.  He  died  at  Maria 
Heim,  Jay  county,  Indiana,  December  15,  1854. 

330.  WlRTZ,  Rev.  Hermann  (Franciscan),  was  born  at 
Cologne-on-the-Rhine,  January  6,  1842;  in  America  since 
April,  1861;  ordained  September  7,  1872.  Was  in  the  Cleve- 
land Monastery,  and  professor  in  St.  Joseph's  College,  Decem- 
ber, 1878  to  July,  1879.      Present  residence  not  known. 

331.  WlTTMEk,  Rev.  John  (Sanguinist),  was  born  at  Ober- 
Erlinsbach,  Canton  Solothurn,  Switzerland,  November  4, 
1818;  ordained  at  Feldkirch,  Austria,  by  Bishop  Bruenster, 
November  21,  1841;  came  to  this  country  with  the  first  San- 
guinist Fathers  in  1844.  He  had  the  following  pastoral 
charges  in  this  diocese  :  assistant  at  Peru,  1844-46;  first 
resident  pastor  of  Randolph,  1846;  assistant  at  Thompson, 
whence  he  also  attended  St.  Joseph's,  Tiffin,  1847-48;  pastor 
of  Thompson,  March,  1849  to  1853.  He  was  then  for  many 
years  on  the  mission  in  the  diocese  of  Cincinnati,  especially 
in  Mercer,  Auglaize  and  Shelby  counties.  In  1885  he  was 
sent  by  his  superior  to  the  diocese  of  Nashville,  where  he  is 
at  present. 

332.  WOCHNER,  Rev.  Henry  (Jesuit),  was  born,  1839,  in 
Haslach,  Wuerttemberg;  ordained  September  8,  1868  ;  in 
the  United  States  since  1876;  was  assistant  at  St.  Mary's, 
Cleveland,  from  1881  to  August,  1885.  He  is  now  in  the 
diocese  of  St.  Paul. 

333.  YVUERZ,  Rev.  Matthias,  was  born,  1807,  in  Schoen- 
bach,  diocese  of  Metz,  France.  He  came  to  America  in 
1833  and  made  his  theological  studies  at  Cincinnati,  where  he 
was  ordained  by  Bishop  Purcell,  June  13,  1835.  He  was 
appointed  first  resident  pastor  of  Louisville,  Stark  county, 
February,  1838,  having  been  transferred  from  Cincinnati. 
From  Louisville  he  also  attended   Randolph.      He  was  pastor 


SECULAR  AND  REGULAR  CLERGY.  191 

of  St.  John's,  Canton,  from  October,  1840,  to  1843,  and  had 
charge  of  Massillon  and  Navarre;  also  occasionally  visited 
the  mission  of  Pern.  He  returned  to  France  in  1845,  where 
he  died  of  apoplexy,  April  2,  1858. 

334.  Yorxc,  Very  Rev.  Nicholas  D.  (Dominican),  nephew 
of  Bishop  Fenwick,  first  Bishop  of  Cincinnati,  was  born  in 
Maryland,  1783;  studied  at  St.  Rose's,  Ky.,  and  Rome;  was 
ordained  by  Bishop  Flaget,  December  10,  1817;  came  to 
Northern  Ohio  from  Kentucky,  November,  1818;  attended 
Dungannon,  Columbiana  count)-,  from  Somerset,  Perry  count}', 
about  1820,  and  again  between  1833  and  1835.  January,  1833, 
he  was  elected  Provincial  of  the  Dominicans  in  the  United 
States.  lie  was  stationed  for  many  years  at  Somerset,  O., 
St.  Pose's,  Ky.  and  Washington,  D.  C.  Died  at  Giesboro, 
Md.,  October  28,  1878,  aged  95.  lie  was  one  of  the  pioneer 
priests  of  Northern  Ohio,  and  a  man  full  of  apostolic  zeal. 

$35.  ZAHNER,  Rev.  — ;  at  Shelby  Settlement  from  [852 
to  [853.  During  his  pastorate  the  present  church,  begun  by 
Pew  P.  Kreusch,  was  finished.      No  other  record  of  him. 

336.  ZANDERS,  Pew  Raymundus  (Franciscan),  was  bom 
at  Friemersdorf,  Rhenish  Prussia,  August  8,  1846;  educated 
at  Duesseldori  and  Paderborn  for  the  ministry;  ordained  at 
Paderborn  by  Bishop  Conrad  Martin,  in  [873;  came  to  the 
United  States  in  [884  and  was  appointed,  <  )ctober  of  the  same 
year,  .1-  assistant  .it  St.  Anthony's  Church,  St.  Louis  Mo. 
Jul}-,  1885,  he  was  sent  to  the  Franciscan  Monaster}-,  Cleve- 
land, remaining  till  February,  [886,  when  he  was  appointed 
chaplain  of  St.  Francis'  Hospital,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

\~ .  Zareczny,  Rev.  Victor,  was  bom  in  Lemberg, 
Galicia-Austria,  December  3,  1841,  IP-  was  educated  in 
Bohemia,  Pal}-,  and  in  the  citv  of  Vienna,  Austria;  ordained 
.it  Tarnow,  Galicia,  Jul}-  21,  [868,  by  Bishop  Putkalski;  was 
eived  into  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  December,  [873,  and 
appointed  pastor  of  the  Poles  in  Berea,  where  h  inized 


1 92  BIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES  OF  THE 

St.    Adelbert's  congregation,    and  built    their  present   church 
and  school.       He   also  attended   Royalton,    1877-82,  and  the 
Poles  living  in  Cleveland,  1879.      He  left   Berea,  and  the  dio- 
cese,   February,    1884.      He    is    at  present   in   the  diocese   of 
Buffalo. 

338.  ZUMBUEHL,  Rev.  Leonz,  was  born  in  Luzern,  Switz- 
erland, May  1,  1846;  studied  for  the  ministry  at  Luzern, 
Schwytz,  Freiburg  and  Chur;  was  ordained  at  Feldkirch, 
Austria,  for  the  diocese  of  Cleveland,  by  Bishop  Amberg, 
April  19,  1870.  Came  to  Cleveland,  September,  1870,  and 
was  appointed  pastor  of  Fort  Jennings,  where  he  remained  till 
January,  1872,  when  he  was  appointed  professor  of  philosophy 
in  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  Cleveland.  This  position  he  held 
till  Juh-  of  same  year,  when  he  was  again  sent  to  take 
pastoral  charge  of  Fort  Jennings.  In  September,  1873,  he 
was  recalled  to  his  former  position  at  the  Seminary,  remain- 
ing till  August  1877,  when  he  left  the  diocese.  From  April, 
1876,  to  July,  1877,  he  also  had  pastoral  charge  of  Indepen- 
dence. Since  August,  1877,  he  has  been  in  the  diocese  of 
Peoria. 

330.  ZWINGE,  Rev.  Capistran  (Franciscan),  was  born  in 
Grosender,  diocese  of  Paderborn,  Prussia,  March  30,  1823; 
ordained  September  4,  1849;  came  to  the  United  States,  Sep- 
tember, 1858;  was  first  Superior  of  Franciscan  Monastery, 
and  pastor  of  St.  Joseph's  Church,  Cleveland,  from  1867  to 
1871.      Died  at  Teutopolis,  111.,  July  24;  1874. 


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205 


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1.  New  Biegel    Sanguinist. 

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2I5 


Stations. 

Sept.  1887. 


No. 


1 
2 

3 

4 
5 
6 

7 
8 

g 

in 
n 

12 
13 

II 
15 
16 

17 
is 
IS 
20 
•21 
22 

24 
26 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 

32 

84 

37 

10 

II 
12 

ll 
17 


Place. 


Ainlm  er 

Atwater 

Aurora 

Austintown  — 

Bascom 

Bass  Islands 

Bedford 

Berlin    Heights- 

Braces  Llle 

Breck8ville 

Brownhelm  

Burg  Hill  ■ 

Camden 

i  lanfield 

Castalia 

i  Jhagrin  Fulls — 

•  lhardon 

Clarkesville 

Columbus  Groi  e 

•  lortland 

Dupoint  -- 

Emerald  ■ 

Fairfield 

Fairview 

Farmington 

I  i  .•  i  r   Rook 

Fredericksburg  - 
Garrettsi  Llle  — 

Geneva  

Genoa 

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I I  reenn  i » - 1 » 

Haselton 

Hesuville 

II iworth  — 

II  mull 

KingSA  i  1 1 « * 

Kinsman    



Latchie      

I.IIW  111 

Leai  ittsburg 

Limaville  

Lindsej 

Linn  dale 

Millbury  

Nevada  

Nan    Portage... 

Olierlill 


I'lllMY. 


Ashtabula  -- 

Portage 

Portage 

Mahoning  .. 

Seneca 

Ottawa 

Cuyahoga  .  - 

Erie 

Trumbull... 
Cuyahoga  .. 

Lorain 

Trumbull- 
Lorain  

Mahoning  .. 

Erie 

<  luyahoga  -. 

Geauga 

Defiance  — 

I'nt  nam 

Trumbull—. 
Putnam  — 
Paulding 

Huron 

Waj  in' 

Trumbull  -.. 
Paulding  --- 

Wayne - 

Portage 

Ashtabula  -- 
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Huron 

Mahoning  -- 
Sandusky... 
i  !olumbiana 

Erie 

Lake 

Trumbull 

Allen 

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Attended  From. 


Jefferson. 

Alliance. 

Warren. 

Niles. 

St.  Patrick's  Settlement. 

Eelley'a  Island. 

Hudson. 

Milan. 

Warren. 

Hudson. 

Vermillion. 

Warren. 

Wakeman. 

Salem. 

Sandusky. 

Warren. 

Painesville. 

Edgerton. 

Lima. 

Warren. 

New  Bavaria. 

Antwerp. 

Peru. 

i 'anal  Fulton. 

Warren. 

Antwerp. 

Wooster. 

Warren. 

South  Thompson. 

South  'I'll I'sun. 

Briar  Hill. 

Wellington. 

"i  oungston  n. 

Elmore. 

Alliance. 

Vermillion. 

Jefferson. 

Warren. 

Lima. 

Elmore. 
Canal  Fulton. 

\\  alien. 

Ulianee. 

Elmore. 

Bookpoi  i 

Elmore. 

Buoj  ru>. 

Medina. 

Blyria. 


2l6 


STATIONS.— Concluded. 


No 

50 
51 
52 
53 
54 
55 
56 
57 
58 
59 
60 
61 
62 
63 
64 
65 
66 
67 
68 
69 


Place. 


OiTville 

Parkham  --- 

Petersburg . 

Portage- 

Robbin's  Station 

Robertsville 

Rochester 

Rocky  Ridge 

Shiloh 

Solon 

Spriugfield 

Springhills 

Talmadge 

Teegarden 

Texas 

Thomastown 

Westville 

Wickliffe 

Willshire 

Windham 


County. 


Wayne 

Summit  — 
Mahoning  .. 

Wood 

Columbiana 
Columbiana 

Lorain 

Ottawa 

Richland  --. 
Cuyahoga... 
Mahoning  -. 
Williams  ... 

Summit 

Columbiana. 

Henry 

Summit 

Columbiana 

Lake 

Van  Wert  -- 
Portage 


Attended  From. 


Canal  Fulton. 

Akron. 

Salem. 

( 'us tar. 

Duugannon. 

(Vacant.) 

Wellington. 

Toussaint. 

Shelby. 

Warren, 

Briar  Hill. 

Edgerton. 

Akron. 

Leetonia. 

Providence. 

Akron. 

Alliance. 

Euclid. 

Landeck. 

Warren. 


TABLE   IV. 


Communities  and  Institutions. 


a.    Male  Religious  Communities. 
Nov.  1888. 


No. 


Place. 


Cleveland  ... 

GUandorf  — 
New  Riegel.. 
Thompson  --- 
Toledo 


Communities. 


Franciscans. 

Jesuits 

Sanguinists. 
Sanguinis  ts. 
Sanguinists. 
Jesuits 


/.    7- 


1867 
1880 
1848 
1844 
1845 
1869 


Superiors. 


Rev.  T.  Arentz. 
Rev.  H.  Knappmeyer. 
Rev.  F.  Nigseh. 
Rev.  B.  Russ. 
Rev.  F.  X.  Griessmayer. 
Rev.  A.  Sigg. 


217 


TABLE  IV— Continued. 

b.    Female  Religious  Communities. 
November,  1888. 


No. 


1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
is 


Place. 


( 'li'\  eland- - 


<  tlandorf  -- 
\.  Bedford 
New  ftiegel 
Thompson  - 

Tiffin 


Toledo- 


COMMl  Ml  [ES. 


Qrsnline  Sisters 

Ladies  ol  Sacred  Heart  of  Mary  .. 

Sisters  of  Charity - 

Sisters  of  Good  Shepherd 

Little  Sisters  of  Poor 

Sisters  ofSt.  Joseph  — 

Sisters  of  Notre  Dame , 

Poor(  'hires 

Franciscan  Sisters - 

Sangninist  Sisters 

Sisters  of  Humility  B.  V.  M  - 

Sangninist  Sisters 

Sangninist  Sisters 

Qrsnline  Sisters - --- 

Franciscan  Sisters 

Qrsnline  Sisters — 

Sistersof  Charity  (Grey  Nuns)  — 
Little  Sisters  "!'  Poor -• 


*•    — 

77 
W3 


1850 

is;,  | 

1851 
1869 
L870 
1872 
1874 
1877 
L884 
1848 
1864 
L844 
L845 
L863 
I  si  ,7 
is:,  | 
is;,;, 
1885 


Superioress. 


Mother  St.  Mary. 
Madame  Le  Masson. 
.Mother  M.  Alexis. 
Mother  \l.  Baptist. 
Mother  Noel  de  St.  Louis. 
Mot  her  M.  George. 
Mother  M.  Chrysostoma. 
Mother  M.  Veronica. 
Sister  Leonarda. 
Sister  Virginia. 
Mother  M.  Odile. 
Sister  Adeltrud. 
Sister  Rufina. 
Mother  M.  [gnatius. 
Mother  M.  Frances. 
Mother M.  A-loysius. 
Sister  Fernand. 
Mother  M.  Louisa. 


No 


c.    Educational  Institutions. 
November,  1888. 


Place. 


Cleveland  — 

Nottingham 
Tiffin 


N  1MB. 


8t  Min-y*-  II logical  Seminary 

-i .  Ignatius'  <  Sollege 

I  rsnline  loademj —  -- 

Not  re  I  >n Aeademj   

I  rauline  Academy  -         

-i.  Joseph's  Seminar]  for  Boys 

I  rauline   Academy  

natius'  Seminary  for  Boyi 


Toledo  I  rauline  loadem] 


A  - 

-  - 

-  - 


IMS 

1886 

Is7l 
lsT7 

1888 
1864 


Si  pi  mors. 


Rev.  \.  \.  Moes,  D   D. 
Ke\ .  II.  K aappmej er,  8.  J. 

Mother  St.  Mai  \  . 
Sister  M.  Modesta   I.  - 
Mother  M.  I.oui-.    I.    - 
Mother  \l.  Ascension,   I 
Mother  M.  [gnatius. 
Mother  M.  [gnatius. 
Mother  M.  Uoj  rius. 


Looal    Superior. 


2l8 


d.   Charitable  Institutions. 

Sept,  1887. 


No. 


1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

13 

14 

15 

16 


Name. 


Cleveland 


Name. 


Charity  Hospital 


m  -/. 

W  3 


Louisville  - 

N. Bedford- 
Tiffin  

Toledo 


St.  Alexis'  Hospital- 
Lying-in    Hospital  and 
Foundling  Asylum 

Home     for    the    Aged 
Poor 

House  of    Good   Shep- 
herd   

St.  .Mary'.-  Orphan  Asy- 
lum for  Girls 

St.    Vincent's    Orphan 
Asylum  for  Boys  --- 

St.     Joseph's     Orphan 
Asylum  for  Girls 

Protectory  for  Girls.  -- 

St.  Louis  Orphan  Asy- 
lum for  Boys---   

St.  Mary's  Orphanage. 

St.  Mary's  Hospital --- 

St.  Francis  Orphan  As'lm 
&  Home  for  the  Aged 

St.    Vincent's    Orphan 
Asylum 


St.  Vincent's  Hospital. 

Home    for     the    Aged 
Poor 


1865 

1884 

1873 

ls70 

1869 

1851 

1851 

1862 

1S84 

1884 

1864 

1864 

1867 

1855 

1876 

1885 


In  Charge  of 


Sisters  of  Charity 
FraneiscanSisters 

Sisters  of  Charity 


Superior. 


Sister  M.  Thomas  (L.  S.*) 

Sister  Leonarda. 

Sister  M.  Aloysius  (L.  S.) 


Little    Sisters   of  Mother    M.    Noel    de    St. 

the  Poor- 
Sisters    of     Good 

Shepherd 


Ladies  of  Sacred 
Heart  of  Mary- 
Sisters  of  Charity 

Ladies  of   Sacred 
Heart  of  Mary. 

Sisters  of    Notre 
Dame 


Sisters  of  Charity 

Sisters  of  Humil- 
ity, B.  V.  M..- 

Sisters  of  Humil- 
ity, B.  V.M.— 

FraneiscanSisters 
Sisters  of  Charity 


Louis. 
Mother  M.  Baptist. 

Madame  Le  Masson. 

Mother  M.  Alexis. 

Miss  Hogan  (L.  S.) 

Sister  M.  Modesta. 

Sister  M.  Amadeus  (L.  S.) 

Mother  M.  Odile. 

««  It 

Rev.  J.  L.  Bihn. 
Sister  Fernand  (L.  S.) 


Little  Sisters  ofslster  Louiga< 
the  Poor 


*  Local  Superior. 


Summary. 


Churches  with  resident  pastors 147 

Mission  churches 78 

Total  number  of  churches.- 225 

Stations  (without  churches) 69 

Seminary -- 1 

Educational  Institutes  for  boys 3 

Educational  Institutes  for  girls 5 


Seen  la  r    priests -- 172 

Regular  priests— - 32 

Total  number  of  priests 204 

Male  Religious  Communities - 6 

Female  Religious  Communities 18 

Charitable  Institutions--- K 

Parochial    Schools. -- 129 


Catholic  Progress 


i\ 


Northern  Oljio  and  tlje  Diocese  of  Cleveland, 

1817.     September,  1887. 


The  subjoined  tabulated  statement  shows  the  years 
when  missions,  congregations  with  resident  pastors,  institu- 
tions, as  also  stations  since  developed  into  congregations, 
were  established.  It  gives  a  summarized  exhibit  of  the  won- 
derful growth  and  spread  of  the  Church  in  Northern  Ohio  and 
in  the  diocese  of  Cleveland.  Steadily,  year  by  year,  churches, 
and  religious,  charitable  and  educational  institutions  have  been 
increasing  in  number  ami  strength,  till  the  diocese  of  Cleve- 
land, covering  the  whole  of  Northern  Ohio,  now  ranks  with 
tin-  largest  and  best  established  dioceses  in  the  United  States. 
The  mustard  seed  of  religion,  planted  by  the  Dominican 
Father,  Rev.  E.  Fenwick,  near  Dungannon  in  1817,  h. is  grown 
to  a  large  and  vigorous  tree  under  whose  shadow  rest  two 
hundred  and  twenty-five  churches  and  many  institutions, 
spreading  their  benign  influence  in  behalf  of  religion,  educa- 
tion and  charity.  The  tabulated  statement  was  compiled 
from  various  sources  and  i->  as  accurate-  a-  pains-taking  care 
could  make  it.  Plac<  are  given  alphabetically  for  each  year, 
and  as  known  at  present.  Where  names  of  places  or  churches 
have  been  changed  in  course  of  time,  tin-  names  under  which 
thc_\-  were  formerly  known  an-  given  in  parenthesis.  Date 
after  name  of  place  signifies  tin-  year  when  the  first  church 


2  2 o  CA  THOLIC  PR  O GRESS  IN 

was  built,  and  hence  prior  to  date  given,  such  place  was 
attended  as  a  station,  with  divine  service  in  private  houses, 
public  halls,  or  other  temporary  place  of  worship.  Where  no 
date  follows  place,  a  church  was  built  simultaneously  with 
organization  of  mission  or  congregation: 

1817.     Dungannon  (St.  Paul's  Settlement,  Hanover),  1820. 

1818. 

1819. 

1820.     Marshallville  (Bristol),  1849. 

1821. 

1822.  Consecration  of  the  Rt.  Rev.  Edward  Fenwick  as  first 

Bishop  of  Cincinnati. 

1823.  Canton,  St.  John's. 
1824. 

1825.  Canal    Fulton   (Lawrence,  Fulton),  183 1. 

1826.  Louisville  (Beechland),  1834;  Wooster,  1849;  Youngs- 

town,  St.  Columba's,  1853.     Rev-  T.  H.  Martin,  O. 
P.,  pays  the  first  visit  to  Cleveland  Catholics. 

1827     Doylestown  (Chippewa),  1837. 

1828. 

1829.     Peru  (German  Settlement  near  Norwalk),  1834. 

1830-     McCutchenville,    1837    [church    destroyed    by   fire   in 
187 1  and  not  rebuilt]. 

1831.  Randolph;  Tiffin;  St.  Mary's,  1832. 

1832.  Navarre  (Bethlehem),   1833.      Bishop  Fenwick  died  of 

cholera  at  Wooster. 

1833.  Avon,    1844;    New    Riegel    (Wolf's    Creek);     Shelby 

Settlement,    1836.     Rt.    Rev.   J.    B.    Purcell    con- 
secrated second  Bishop  of  Cincinnati. 

1834.  East  Liverpool,  1841  ;   Fort  Jennings,  1840;  Glandorf; 

Liberty,    1841  ;   Sandusky,    Holy    Angels',    1842  ; 
Thompson,  1839;   Wellsville,  1867. 


NORTHERN  OHIO.  221 

1835.  Akron  (Cascade),  St.  Vincent  de  Paul's,  1844;  Bucyrus, 
1862;  Cleveland,  St.  Mary's  on  Flats,  [commenced 
1838,  dedicated  1840,  closed  1879,  and  taken  down 
September,  1888];  La  Porte  [church  removed  to 
Grafton,  1865]. 

1836. 

1837.  Marshallvillc    (Bristol),    1865.      Toledo    (Manhattan, 

Vistula),  St.  Francis  de  Sales'  1842;  Rev.  E. 
Thienpont  the  first  priest  to  visit  the  Catholics 
of  Toledo,  1837. 

1838.  Providence,    1845;     Maumee    (Maumee     City,     South 

Toledo),   1 841. 

1839.  Massillon,  St.  Mary's,  1844. 

181-0.  Abbeyville,  1842  [closed  1859];  Grafton  (Rawsonville), 
1865;  Liverpool.  1842;  Norwalk,  St.  Peter's. 

1841.  Cuyahoga  Falls,  (1886);  Defiance,  St.  John's,  1844; 
Fremont  (Lower  Sandusky),  St.  Ann's,  1844;  La 
Prairie;  Napoleon,  1856;  New  Washington,  1846; 
Ravenna,    1862;  Woodville,  1862. 

1542.  Elyria,  1854;  French  Creek,  1844;  Marblehead,  1868; 

St.  Stephen's  Settlement  (Bloom);  Sheffield; 
Summitville,  1852;  Toussaint,  1861;  Vermillion, 
[862. 

1543.  New  Bavaria  (Poplar  Ridge),  1S45;  Port  Clinton,  i860. 

1844.  Delphos;  Findlay,  1856;  Mansfield,  [848;  NewRiegel, 
Sanguinist  Convent;  South  Thompson,  1859. 

is  IT).  Canton.  St.  Peter's;  Harrisburg;  New  Berlin;  Oak 
Harbor,  [872;  Painesville,  [850;  Thompson,  San- 
guinist Convent;    Tiffin,  St.  Joseph's. 

1846.  Archbold,  [850;  Bismarck  (Sherman  ;  Delaware 
Bend,  [848;  Hicksville,  [880;  Junction,  [860; 
Lima,  [852;  Six  Mile  Woods,  [848;  Toledo, 
Notre  Dame  Sisters  ol  Cincinnati  open  a  Convent 
.md  select  school  [closed  in  [848]. 


222  CATHOLIC  PROGRESS  IN  THE 

1847.  DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND  ERECTED. 

Right  Rev.  Amadeus  Rappe  consecrated  first 
Bishop  of  Cleveland;  Cleveland,  St.  Mary's  Church 
on  the  Flats  made  the  Cathedral  church;  Fostoria 
(Rome),  185 1.  Priests  in  Diocese,  21;  churches, 
42;  stations,  28;  religious  communities,  3. 

1848.  Cleveland— present  Cathedral  commenced;  St.  Mary's 

Theological  Seminary  opened  near  Bond  street, 
[transferred  in  1850  to  frame  building  "spring  cot- 
tage," on  Lake  street,  site  of  present  seminary 
grounds;  enlarged  in  1853  by  addition  of  brick 
building,  and  in  1856  by  a  frame  building;  north 
wing  and  middle  portion  of  present  building  erect- 
ed in  1859;  south  wing  in  1881].  Glandorf,  San- 
guinist  Convent;   Rockport,  St.  Patrick's,  1853. 

1849.  Wellington,  1858. 

1850.  Cleveland,    Ursuline   Convent    and    Academy;    Otto- 

ville  (Section  Ten),  1861;  Warren,  1864. 

1851.  Cleveland— St.  Mary's  Orphan  Asylum  for  Girls;  Con- 

vent of  Ladies  of  Sacred  Heart  of  Mary;  St.  Vin- 
cent's Asylum  for  Boys;  Convent  of  Sisters  of 
Charity.      Independence. 

1852.  Alliance,  i860;    Cleveland,  Cathedral  consecrated  in 

November;   St.  Mary's  Corners,  1868. 

1853.  Ashland,  1863;    Cleveland— St.  Peter's,   1857;    Clyde, 

1862;  Massillon,  St.  Joseph's,  1854;  Mineral  Ridge, 
1872;  New  London,  1872;  Niles,  1864;  Salem, 
1 881;   Sandusky,  St.  Mary's;   Wakeman,  1872. 

1854.  Cleveland— West  Side   (Ohio  City),  St.  Mary's  of  the 

Assumption,  1865;  St.  Patrick's;  St.  John's  Col- 
lege, [closed  1859].  Crawfordsville  (St.  Joseph's, 
West  Salem),  1859;  Gabon,  St.  Joseph's,  1855; 
Green  Spring,  1872;  Hudson,  i860;  Olmsted, 
1858;  Toledo— St.  Joseph's;  St.  Mary's,  1856; 
Ursuline  Convent  and  Academy. 


DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND.  223 

1855.  Cleveland,  St.  Joseph's;    Sylvania,   1872;   Toledo,  St. 

Vincent's  Orphan  Asylum. 

1856.  Berea,   St.  Mary's;    Berwick   (Frenchtown;)    Bluffton, 

[865;  Cleveland,  Immaculate  Conception;  Genoa, 
[874;  Leetonia,  (St.  Patrick's  since  1881;  St.  Bar- 
bara's 1868-81);  Norwalk,  St.  Mary's,  1858. 

1857.  Cleveland,    St.   Bridget's;   Conneaut,    1864;   Fremont, 

St.  Joseph's,  1858  ;  Royalton,  1864;  Strasburg; 
Upper  Sandusky. 

1858.  Ashtabula,    i860;     Big    Springs,    1859;     Custar,    1866; 

Jefferson,  1869;  Millersville  (Greensburg) ;  Spen- 
cerville,  1876. 

1859.  Bellevue;    French    Settlement,    1864;    Cleveland,    St. 

John's  College,  closed. 

1860.  Cleveland— St.  Augustine's;  St.   Mary's  College  and 

Preparatory  Seminary  opened  on  Lake  street. 
Convoy,  1864;  Euclid,  (86i;  Medina,  1864;  New 
Cleveland,  1861;  Front's  Station;  Rockport,  St. 
Marys;  Willoughby,  1869. 

1S(>1.  Akron,  St.  Bernard's,  1862;  Crestline;  Kalida;  Kelley's 
Island;  Monroeville,  [862;  North  Ridge;  Perrys- 
burg;  Stryker. 

1862.     Cleveland     (Newburgh),  Holy    Rosary    (since     [881, 

Holy  Name];  St.  Joseph's  Orphan  Asylum  for 
Girls,  Kent,  [868;  Toledo,  St.  Patrick's,  1S63. 

18(>:J.  Madison,  [869;  Milan,  [865;  St.  Patrick's  Settlement, 
1864;  Tiffin,  Ursuline  Convent  and  Academy. 

ls<H  Antwerp,  [870;  Florence;  Hubbard,  [867;  Mantua; 
[871;  New  Bedford,  Convent  of  Sisters  of  Humil- 
ity of  Mary;  North  Amherst,  [869. 

1865.  Bryan,  [875;  Cleveland  St.  Malachy's  [869;  Charity 
Hospital.  ton     Clarksville),    [868;   Kirby; 

Shelby,  [866;  Wauseon,  [8 

L866.  Mud  Creek;  Salineville,  1873;  Toledo,  St.  Peter's, 
[873;  Wrst  Brookfield,  [867. 


224  CA  THOLIC  PR  O GRESS  IN  THE 

1867.  Cleveland — St.     Wenceslas';     Franciscan    Monastery. 

Landeck;  Louisville,  St.  Louis'  College  [closed 
1873];  Mentor,  1868;  Reed;  Rootstown;  Tiffin,  St. 
Francis'  Hospital  and  Orphan  Asylum;  Toledo, 
Immaculate  Conception,  1868;  Van  Wert,  1870. 

1868.  Carey,  1872;   Norwalk,  St.  Paul's;   Ottawa,  1872. 

1869.  Bowling  Green,  1881;  Briar  Hill,  [870;  Cleveland— St. 

Stephen's  ;  Good  Shepherd  Convent.  Galion,  St. 
Patrick's;   Youngstown,  St.  Joseph's. 

1870.  Bishop  Rappe   resigned    the  Episcopal  See  of  Cleve- 

land. Cleveland — Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor  [Home 
for  the  Aged  Poor];  St.  Mary's  of  the  Annuncia- 
tion. Elmore,  1873;  Roachton,  1872;  Struthers, 
1872;  Vienna,  1874. 

1871.  Cleveland — St.   Columbkill's   [discontinued  as  a  con- 

gregation in  1872];  Holy  Family  [St.  Edward's 
since  1886].  Loudonville;  Sandusky,  Sts.  Peter 
and  Paul's;  Toledo — St.  Hedwig's  ;  St.  Louis'. 
Vienna,  1872. 

1872.  Cleveland,  Convent,  of  Sisters  of  St.  Joseph;  Lowell- 

ville,  1884;  Parma,  1873;  Plymouth.  Rt.  Rev.  R. 
Gilmour  consecrated  as  second  Bishop  of  Cleveland. 

1873.  Berea,  St.  Adalbert's;   Brighton,  1875;  Cleveland— St. 

Stanislas',  1881;  House  of  Maternity  and  Foundling 
Asylum.  Defiance,  Our  Lady  of  Perpetual  Help; 
Peninsula,  1882;   Toledo,  Good  Shepherd's. 

1874.  Cleveland — St.-  Procop's;   Notre    Dame   Convent   and 

Academy.  Leipsic,  1876;  Louisville,  Academy  for 
Girls  and  for  Deaf  Mutes  [discontinued  in  1883; 
building  formerly  used  for  a  college,  then  for  an 
academy;  is  used  as  an  Asylum  for  Orphan  Boys 
since  1884];  Weston;  Youngstown,  Ursuline 
Convent. 

1875.  Bettsville,  1876;   Cecil,  1879;   Deshler;   North  Ridge- 

ville. 

1876.  Chicago  Junction,  1879;  Toledo,  St.  Vincent's  Hospital. 


DIOCESE  OF  CLEVELAND.  225 

1877.  Cleveland,   Poor  Clares'   Convent;   Collinwood,    1878; 

Nottingham,  Ursuline  Convent  and  Academy;  Put- 
in-Hay.    Bishop  Rappe  died  at  St.  Albans,  Vt. 

1878.  Lorain  (Black  River),  1879. 

1879.  Cleveland,  Franciscan   College   [closed    188 1];    Honey 

Creek. 

1880.  Cleveland— St.  Colman's;   Holy  Trinity.      East  Pales- 

tine. 

1881.  Sterling  (Russell). 

1882.  Attica;   Payne,  1883;  Toledo,  St.  Anthony's;  Youngs- 

town,  Immaculate  Conception. 

1883.  Big  Ditch,    1884;     Cleveland -- St.     Adalbert's;      St. 

Michael's;  Our  Lady  of  Lourdes.     Toledo,  Sacred 
Heart;  Tremblayville. 

1884.  Cleveland— St.  Alexis'  Hospital;  St.  Mary's  Protectory 

for  Girls.    Louisville,  St.  Louis'  Asylum  for  Orphan 
Boys. 

1885.  Toledo,  Little  Sisters  of  the  Poor. 

1886.  Cleveland,  Jesuit  College;   Holgate;   Nottingham,   St. 

Joseph's  Seminary  for  Small  Boys;  Wadsworth. 

1887.  Cleveland— St.    Anthony's;   St.  Francis'.     Akron,  St. 

Marx's;  Hamler;  Miller's  City;  New  Lisbon;  North 
Creek;   Republic. 


HISTORICAL     SKETCH 


OF  EARLY  CATHOLICITY  AND  THE  FIRST  CATHO- 
LIC   CHURCH    IN    CLEVELAND. 

In  1793,  Augustus  Spafford,  under  the  direction  of  Moses 
Cleaveland,  the  General  Superintendent  of  the   Connecticut 
Land   Company,  began  the  survey  of  a  portion  of  the  present 
city    of   Cleveland.     The    Hon.   Harvey    Rice,   in    his    inter- 
esting work,   Pioneers    of  the  Western   Reserve,  referring  to 
this    survey  says:      "Moses,  Cleaveland,    with    the    eye    of  a 
prophet,  foresaw  that  a  great  commercial  city  was  here  des- 
tined to  spring  into  existence  at  no  distant  day,  and  accord- 
ingly directed  its  survey  to  be  made  into  town-lots  of  so  much 
of  the   land  as  was   included  within   the  angle   formed  by  the 
lake  and  easterly  side  of  the  river,  and  as  far  southeasterly  as 
seemed  requisite  for  the  location  of  the  predicted  city.     When 
the    survey    was    completed — October    1,    1796 — he    felt   the 
importance  of  selecting  a  suitable  name  for  the  new  city,  but 
was  perplexed  in  coming  to  a  satisfactory  decision,  and  hence 
requested  his  associates  to  favor  him  with  their  suggestions. 
They  at  once  baptized  the  infant  city  and  gave  it  the  name  of 
Cleaveland,  in  honor  of  their  superior  in  authority.      Moses  was 
taken  by  surprise,  blushed,  and  gracefully  acknowledged  the 
compliment.     The  letter  'a,'   in  the  first  syllable  of  his  name, 
was  subsequently   dropped   out   by   a   resident  editor   of  the 
town,  because  he  could  not  include    it  in  the  headline  of  his 
newspaper  for  want  of  sufficient  space.     The  public  adopted 
the  editor's  orthography,  which  has  ever  since  been  retained." 

July,  1800,  Cleveland  became -a  part  of  Trumbull  county, 
which  at  that  time  comprised  the  entire  Western  Reserve 
lands,  owned  and  controlled  by  the  above-mentioned  com- 
pany, through  whose   influence,  also,  this  part  of  Ohio   was 

*Pp.  47  and  IS. 


If 

f  jDt.JVLa.ry's  Church,  on„Flats"  Cleveland.  Qkio. 


EARL  Y  CA TH0L1CITY  IN  CLE  VELAND.  227 

settled  by  people  from  Connecticut  and  other  New  England 
States.  They  brought  with  them  an  intense  hatred  against 
Catholics  and  their  Church,  which  to  this  day  has  been  per- 
petuated in  their  descendants,  though  gradually  in  less 
marked  degree. 

July  4th,  1825,  ground  was  broken  for  the  Ohio  canal, 
beginnings  in  Cleveland.  The  ceremony  was  attended  with 
much  eclat,  as  it  was  the  beginning  of  a  new  era  for  the  town 
which  at  that  time  had  a  population  of  about  five  hundred. 
This  number  was  doubled  within  a  year,  because  of  the  canal 
now  in  course  of  construction.  With  this  increase  of  popu- 
lation in  1826  came  the  first  Catholics— Irish  laborers — seek- 
ing and  finding  employment  on  the  canal,  which  was  rapidly 
pushed  to  completion.  It  was  during  this  year  also  that  the 
first  priest  came  to  Cleveland,  the  Dominican  Father,  Rev. 
Thomas  Martin,  then  residing  in  Perry  county,  whence  he 
attended  a  number  of  missions  in  Columbiana  and  Stark 
counties.  He  had  heard  that  quite  a  colony  of  Catholics 
were  employed  on  the  canal,  building  between  Cleveland  and 
Akron,  and  hence  made  it  his  business  to  visit  them  and 
attend  to  their  spiritual  wants.  The  Very  Rev.  Stephen  T. 
Badin,  the  proto-priest  of  the  United  States,  did  the  same  a 
few  time-.  There  is  no  record  of  any  other  priest  having 
come  to  Cleveland  till  the  advent  of 

Tin:  ki  \ .  John  Dillon, 

who  was  sent  here  by  Bishop  Purcell  in  the  early  part  of  1S35, 
a-  the  first  resident  pastor,  lie,  as  his  predecessors,  said 
Mass  in  private  house-,,  as  there  was  no  other  place  to  be 
had  then.  However,  shortly  after  his  arrival  lie  succeeded  in 
uring  a  large  room,  30x40  feet,  known  as  Shakspeare  Hall. 
It  was  in  the  upper  story  of  the  Meru  in  building,  located  at 
the  foot  of  Superior  street,  near  the  present    Atwater  block. 

This  hall   he  fitted   up  as  .1  temporary  place  of  worship,  as  best 

he  could  with  the  limited  means  at  his  disposal,  and  in  it  said 
Mas-,  for  a  short  time. 

Anion-  the  regular  attendants  at  the  Catholic  service  held 
in   this  hall    were  several    Protestant  gentlemen.     They  were 


2  28  EARL  Y  CA  THOLICITY 

attracted  by  the  eloquence  of  Father  Dillon,  for  whom  they 
conceived  a  great  regard  and  admiration  because  of  his  talent 
and  amiability.  One  of  these  gentlemen  was  the  Hon. 
Harvey  Rice,  who  is  now  (1888),  upwards  of  eighty  years  of  age 
and  one  of  Cleveland's  most  distinguished  citizens.  He  settled 
in  Cleveland  in  1824,  two  years  before  a  Catholic  priest  or  lay- 
man had  come.  He  is,  therefore,  a  living  witness  to  the  won- 
derful growth  of  Catholicity  in  Cleveland,  and  to  him  the  writer 
is  greatly  indebted  for  much  of  the  information  here  given. 
Of  Father  Dillon  he  says,  that  he  was  a  cultivated  and  schol- 
arly gentleman,  polished  in  manner  and  an  eloquent  preacher; 
that  his  zeal  was  limited  only  by  his  physical  ability,  and 
that  he  was  truly  a  father  to  his  spiritual  children 

When  Father  Dillon  came  to  Cleveland,  he  found  the 
Catholics  very  few  in  numbers  and  very  poor  as  to  worldly 
possessions.  Added  to  this  he  also  unfortunately  found  much 
intemperance,  and  very  little  regard  for  the  sacredness  of  the 
Sunday.  Carousals  and  free  fights  were  of  common  occur- 
rence, but  he  set  manfully  to  work  to  correct  these  evils 
and  to  elevate  the  moral  and  social  condition  of  his  poor  and 
despised  charge. 

The  next  place  in  which  Father  Dillon  held  public  service 
in  Cleveland  was  in  a  one-story  frame  cottage,  on  the  west 
side  of  Erie  street  near  Prospect.  The  building  is  still 
standing  on  the  old  site.  In  it  there  were  several  rooms, 
the  largest  serving  as  a  "church,"  the  others  as  the  pastoral 
residence.  A  few  months  later  Father  Dillon  secured  Farm- 
mers'  Hall,  in  Mechanics  Block,  at  the  corner  of  Prospect 
and  Ontario  streets,  and  transformed  it  into  a  temporary 
church.  He  continued,  however,  to  reside  in  the  house  above 
mentioned,  till  his  death. 

Father  Dillon  had  tired  of  halls  as  makeshifts  for  a  church. 
Besides,  the  growing  number  of  Catholics  made  such  incon- 
veniently small  for  their  accommodation.  But  his  people 
were  too  poor  to  build  a  church.  He  therefore  sought  help 
elsewhere  and  obtained  it  from  kind  and  generous  Protestants. 
He   also  went,  among  other  places,  to  New  York  city,  where 


IN  CIEVEIAND,  OHIO.  229 

his  eloquent  appeals  for  assistance  resulted  in  his  returning 
with  about  one  thousand  dollars  for  the  proposed  church. 
But  shortly  after  his  return  to  Cleveland  he  fell  a  victim  to 
bilious  fever,  and  died  October  16,  1836,  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
nine  years — a  little  more  than  two  years  after  his  ordination 
to  the  priesthood.  His  death  was  a  severe  blow  to  his  little 
flock,  and  was  lamented  by  those  not  of  the  Faith.  The 
Cleveland  Advertiser,  a  secular  paper,  in  its  issue  of  October 
20,  1836,  said  of  him:  "The  death  of  Father  Dillon  will  be 
deeply  felt  by  his  bereaved  and  afflicted  church.  He  was  one 
of  the  first  of  our  clergy  in  point  of  talent  and  piety,  and 
though  he  labored  in  obscurity,  yet  he  labored  faithfully  and 
well."  His  remains  were  interred  in  the  Erie  street  ceme- 
tery, but  a  short  distance  from  the  place  in  which  he  had 
resided  and  died.  Eleven  months  the  Catholics  of  Cleveland 
were  without  a  resident  pastor.  Rev.  H.  D.  Juncker  came 
occasionally  from  Canton,  where  he  was  stationed  between 
1836  and  1837.      September,  1837, 

Tin-:  Rev.  Patrick  O'Dwyer, 
a  recent  arrival  from  Quebec,  was  sent  as  good  Father  Dil- 
lon's successor.  His  pastoral  residence  was  a  small  frame 
cottage,  located  on  the  present  site  of  the  Catholic  Universe 
office,  corner  of  Superior  and  Muirson  streets.  During  his 
pastorate  he  said  Mass  in  the  third  story  of  Fanners'  Block, 
already  mentioned. 

'  October  24,  1S37,  Messrs.  James  S.  Chirk,  Richard  Hilliard 
and  Edmund  Clarke,  conveyed  by  land  contract  to  the  Rt. 
Rev.  John  Baptist  Purcell,  Bishop  of  Cincinnati,  "in  trust  for 
the  Roman  ( latholic  Society  of  <  >ur  Lady  of  the  Lake,  of  said 
Cleveland,  the  following  piece  or  parcel  of  land,  to- wit  :  Lots 
numbered  218  and  ji<»  [corner  Columbus  and  Girard  streets], 
in  the  plat  of  ( 'lowland  centre,"  subject  to  tin-  folloM  ing  con- 
ditions :  "Provided  always  and  these  presents  are  on  the 
express  condition,  that  the  said  society  shall    within  and  dur- 

ing  the  space  "f  loin-  months  from  tin-  date  of  this  agreement, 
erect,  build,  finish  and  complete  outwardly  a  respectable  ami 
suitable   frame  house  or  church  building  for  public  worship, 


23o  EARL  Y  CA  THOLICLTY 

and  commence  regularly  holding  their  meetings  therein;  to 
have  and  to  hold  the  above  premises  with  the  appurtenances 
thereof  so  long  as  the  same  shall  be  occupied  as  aforesaid, 
and  so  much  longer  as  said  church  shall  own  and  occupy 
regularly  a  respectable  lot  and  house  for  public  worship  upon 
the  plat  of  Cleveland  centre."  A  deed  was  executed  by  the 
above  named  gentlemen  on  November  21,  1842,  covering  the 
land  contract. 

Father  O'Dwyer  at  once  set  to  work  to  increase  the  build- 
ing fund  already  secured  by  the  lamented  Father  Dillon,  and 
to  begin  the  much  needed  and  long  looked  for  church.  In  a  few 
months  the  building  was  erected,  but  could  not  be  com- 
pleted for  lack  of  means.  Meanwhile  also,  owing  to  dissensions 
in  the  congregation,  Father  O'Dwyer  left  Cleveland  about 
June,  1839.  The  church  stood  unfinished  for  months  till 
Bishop  Purcell,  coming  to  Cleveland  during  September  of 
same  year,  and  remaining  for  three  weeks,  had  it  so  far 
pushed  towards  completion  that  Mass  was  said  in  it  for  the 
first  time  in  October,  1839.  During  his  stay  in  Cleveland  at 
this  time  the  Bishop  also  prepared  a  class  of  children  for  first 
communion,  which  was  administered  to  them  in  the  new 
church  by  Father  Henni,  who  had  come  from  Cincinnati  to 
assist  the  Bishop. 

Although  the  Catholics  of  Cleveland  now  had  a  church 
they  were  without  a  resident  pastor  from  the  time  Father 
O'Dwyer  left.  On  Sundays  they  assembled  in  their  church, 
by  this  time  furnished  with  temporary  altars  and  pews,  and 
there  recited  the  Rosary  in  common,  one  or  other  of  the 
laity  reading  from  the  Goffinc  the  epistle  and  gospel  of  the 
day  with  their  explanation. 

Meanwhile,  through  the  exertions  of  the  laity,  the  church 
was  plastered  and  properly  provided  with  the  necessary  out- 
fit, and  all  were  anxiously  awaiting  its  dedication  and  the 
appointment  of  a  shepherd  for  the  shepherdless  flock. 

The  former  expectation  was  realized  on  Sunday,  June  7th, 
1840,  when  the  solemn  and  impressive  dedicatory  ceremonies 
were    performed  by  the  Rt.    Rev.  Doctor  de    Forbin-Janson, 


IN  CLEVELAND,   OHIO.  231 

Bishop  of  Toule-Nancy,  France,  then  on  a  visit  to  the  United 
States.  The  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Purcell  assisted  at  the  cere- 
mony and  preached  an  eloquent  and  appropriate  discourse  on 
the  occasion.  The  church  was  crowded  by  the  joyous  Cath- 
olics and  interested  Protestants  of  the  town.  The  building, 
81  by  53  feet,  was  constructed  of  frame,  had  four  well-wrought 
doric  columns  and  was  neatly  plastered  and  pewed.  *  It  was 
also  furnished  with  an  altar,  considered  neat  and  tasty  at  the 
time.  The  cost  of  the  building,  exclusive  of  furniture,  was 
about  $3,000. 

The  church  was  dedicated  to  "Our  Lady  of  the  Lake,"  but 
by  popular  usage  the  name  was  soon  changed  to  St.  Mary's  on 
the  "  Flats,"  that  part  of  the  city  being  then  and  even  now  so 
called.  The  church  served  as  a  House  of  God  for  all  the 
Catholics  of  Cleveland  till  1852,  and  as  the  first  cathedral  of 
Bishop  Rappe  from  October,  [847,  till  November,  1852,  when 
the  present  cathedral  was  opened  for  divine  service.  October, 
[  S40. 

Tin:  Rev.  Peter  McLaughlin 

was  appointed  Father  O'Dwyer's  successor.  He  received  a 
most  cordial  welcome  from  the  Catholics  of  Cleveland,  who 
had  been  without  a  resident  pastor  for  nearly  a  year,  depend- 
ing solely  on  occasional  visits  of  priests  from  Cincinnati  and 
Dayton.  The  pastorate  of  Cleveland's  Catholics  was  Father 
McLaughlin's  first  appointment,  he  having  been  ordained  by 
Bishop  Purcell  only  a  few  weeks  previous.  He  was  a  man  of 
much  energy  and  an  eloquent  preacher.  Being  also  conver- 
sant to  some  extent  with  the  German  language  he  satisfied 
the  wants  of  his  "mixed"  congregation,  quite  a  number  of 
which  had  come  from  Germany.  Under  his  direction  the  new 
church  was  entirely  finished,  a  choir  was  organized  and  a  reed 
organ   secured. 

With  a  sharp,  keen  eye  i«»  tin-  future  growth  of  Catholicity 
in    Cleveland,    and    with    a    view    t"  locating   a    church    in    the 

upper  and  better  portion  of  the  city,  and   more  conveniently 
situated  for  his  congregation,   Father   McLaughlin   purcha 
from  Thomas  May  lour  lots,  fronting  Superior  and  Erie  stn 

•    Catholic  Telegraph,  June  20,  1840. 


232  EARLY  CATHOLICITY 

the  site  of  the  present  cathedral.  The  lots  were  secured  by 
land  contract,  dated  January  22,  1845;  the  purchase  price  was 
$4,000.  The  lots  were  bought  on  Father  McLaughlin's 
responsibility,  transferred  to  and  assumed  by  Bishop  Purcell, 
October  15,  1845.  Father  McLaughlin  was  much  blamed  by 
some  of  his  faultfinding  parishioners  for  buying  church  lots 
"  in  the  country."  Erie  street  was  at  that  time  the  east 
boundary  of  the  built-up  portion  of  the  city.  Needless  to  say 
who  was  the  wiser — he  or  his  critics! 

The  purchase  of  these  lots  was  the  beginning  of  an  unkind 
feeling  towards  Father  McLaughlin  on  the  part  of  a  few  Cath- 
olics; it  grew  in  strength  and  and  violence.  Finding  that  he 
could  no  longer  profitably  serve  their  spiritual  interests  he 
asked  his  Bishop  to  relieve  him  from  the  pastorate  of  St. 
Mary's.  His  request  was  granted,  and  to  the  great  grief  of 
the  better  portion  of  his  congregation,  and  to  the  sorrow  of 
all  the  Protestant  citizens  of  Cleveland  who  learnt  to  respect 
him  for  his  ability  and  honesty  of  purpose,  he  left  in  Febru- 
ary, 1846,  after  nearly  six  years  of  faithful  and  disinterested 
work  among  his  people.     A  few  days  before  his  departure  the 

Rev.  Maurice  Howard 
arrived  as  his  successor.  Besides  attending  to  St.  Mary's 
congregation,  Cleveland,  Father  Howard  also  had  charge  of 
missions  in  Lake,  Lorain  and  Geauga  counties  which  had  been 
attended  by  Father  McLaughlin.  He  had  as  his  assistant  for 
some  months  the  Rev.  Michael  A.  Byrne,  who  had  also  shared 
Father  McLaughlin's  labors  a  short  time.  During  his  pas- 
torate the  diocese  of  Cleveland  was  erected,  and 
The  Rt.  Rev.  Amadeus  Rappe 
consecrated  bishop  thereof,  October  10,  1847.  Bishop  Rappe 
saw  the  pressing  need  of  better  and  more  ample  church  facil- 
ities for  the  rapidly  increasing  number  of  Catholics  of  his 
episcopal  city,  the  church  on  the  Flats  having  become  much 
too  small  to  accommodate  them.  Besides,  the  Germans 
were  clamoring  for  sermons  in  their  native  tongue.  The 
good  Bishop  secured  the  aid  of  the  Sanguinists  Fathers  from 
Thompson,  Seneca  county,   the  Revs.   Matthias  Kreusch  and 


IN  CLEVELAND,   OHLO.  233 

Jacob  Ringele,  to  minister  to  the  Germans,  who  now  received 
separate  services  in  old  St.  Mary's. 

October  23,  1848,  the  Bishop  purchased  from  Thomas  May, 
five  lots  adjoining  those  secured  some  years  previous  by  Father 
McLaughlin,  paying  for  them  the  sum  of  $1250.  On  one  of 
these  lots,  immediately  east  of  the  present  cathedral  and  on 
the  site  of  the  episcopal  residence,  he  had  a  temporary  frame 
structure  erected,  known  as  the  church  of  the  Nativ- 
ity. Mass  was  celebrated  in  it  for  the  first  time  on  Christ- 
mass,  1848.  The  building  served  as  a  "chapel  of  ease"  to 
St.  Mary's  on  the  Flats,  till  the  completion  of  the  present 
cathedral,  in  November,  1852.  On  week  days  the  sanctuary  of 
this  chapel  was  closed  from  view  by  folding  doors,  and  the 
nave  was  fitted  for  a  school — the  first  parochial  school  in  the 
city  and  diocese  of  Cleveland.  An  attempt  to  have  a  Catholic 
select  school  in  Cleveland  had  been  made  about  1837,  but 
soon  failed  for  lack  of  an  efficient  teacher. 

January,  1848,  the  Rev.  Louis  de  Goesbriand  succeeded 
Father  Howard  in  the  pastorate  of  St.  Mary's,  and  was  also 
appointed  the  Vicar  General  of  Bishop  Rappe,  retaining  the 
latter  position  till  his  consecration  as  Bishop  of  Burlington, 
October,  1853.  Father  de  Goesbriand  was  assisted  during 
the  time  of  his  pastorate  of  Cleveland's  first  and  only  congre- 
gation by  Rev.  James  Conlan,  and  occasionally  by  the  above 
mentioned  Sanguinist  Fathers.  The  Bishop,  when  at  home, 
always  gave  his  assistance  and  had  the  "  lion's  share  "  of  the 
pastoral  work,  going  every  morning  from  his  residence, 
(located  for  a  few  months  near  the  Ilaymarket,  and 
from  1848  on  Bond  street)  to  his  cathedral  on  the 
Flats  to  say  Mass,  and  on  Saturday  afternoons  and 
eves  of  feastdays  to  hear  confessions.  It  is  related 
of  him  that  on  one  occasion,  the  day  before  a  great 
feast  of  the  Church,  he  went  to  the  confessional  imme- 
diately after  Mass  and  rein. lined  for  thirteen  hours,  taking 
but  a  small  collation  towards  evening.  His  connection  with 
the  parish  work  seemed  to  be  rather  that  of  a  pastor  or  curate 
than    that    of  the   Bishop  of  the  diocese.     He  cathechised, 


234  EARLY  CATHOLICITY 

preached,  assisted  at  marriages,  baptised  and  performed  the 
burial  services.  He  did  this  so  constantly  that  the  good 
people  took  it  as  a  matter  of  course,  and  often  would  ask  his 
services  in  preference  to  the  priests  attending  the  church. 
From  October,  1847,  till  November  7,  1852, 

St.  Mary's  Church  on  the  Flats, 
as   yet  the  only  Catholic  church  in  Cleveland,  served  as  the 
first  cathedral  of  the  diocese.    On  last  mentioned  date  the  pres- 
ent cathedral,  corner  of  Superior  and  Erie  streets,  was  finished 
and  consecrated.     St.  Mary's  was  then   assigned  to  the  Ger- 
mans who  were   placed   under  the  pastoral  care  of  the  above 
mentioned  Sanguinist  Fathers  and    Rev.   N.   Roupp,  till  the 
advent  of  the  Rev.  John  H.  Luhr,    February,  1853.      He  was 
appointed  their  first  resident  pastor.     As  the  Catholic  Ger- 
mans lived  too  widely  separated  to  make  St.  Mary's  conven- 
iently located  for  all,  Father  Luhr's  proposition,  to  have  those 
living  east  of  the  river  organize  as  a  distinct  congregation, 
was  approved  by  Bishop  Rappe  who  authorized  them  to  pur- 
chase a  site  for  church  purposes  at  the  corner  of  Superior  and 
Dodge  streets.     This  was  the  beginning  of  St.  Peter's  congre- 
gation.    The  Germans  living  west  of  the  river  were  formed  in 
November,    1854,    as   a  congregation   under   the   title  of  St. 
Mary's  of  the   Assumption,   and  were   given   the  use  of  the 
church  on  the  Flats,  till  the  dedication  of  their  present  church, 
corner  Carroll  and  Jersey  streets,  in  1865.     Revs.  J.  J.  Kramer, 
F.  X.  Obermueller,  and  J.  Hamene  had  successively  charge  of 
St.  Mary's  congregation,  till  last  mentioned  year.     From  1865 
to  1879  old  St.  Mary's  was  the  cradle  of  the  following  congre- 
gations:      St.    Malachy's,    1865;   St,   Wenceslas',   (Bohemian) 
1867;    Annunciation,  (French)    1870.     The  Catholic  Poles  of 
Cleveland  were  the  last  to  occupy  the  venerable  proto-church 
of  Cleveland,  viz:   from  1872  to    1879,  when  they  organized  as 
St.  Stanislas'  congregation.       From  1879  till  1886  the  church 
practically  abandoned,  as  the  Catholics  residing  in  its  neigh- 
borhood were  not  sufficient  in  number  to  warrant  the  organ- 
ization or  maintenance  of  a  congregation. 

On  the  Feast  of  Epiphany,  1886,  Bishop  Gilmour  directed 


IN  CLEVELAND,    OHIO.  235 

Mgr.  Boff,  V.  G.,  to  celebrate  High  Mass  in  it,  to  prevent,  if 
possible,  the  church  lots  from  reverting  to  the  heirs  of  the 
original  grantors,  because  of  the  conditional  clause  in  the 
deed  of  transfer;  this  the  more,  since  suit  for  recovery  of 
title  had  been  threatened.  It  was  a  typical  winter's  day,  with 
plenty  of  snow  and  ice  covering  the  interior  of  the  building, 
open  for  long  to  wind  and  weather.  Two  years  previous  a 
ruthless  storm  had  blown  down  its  much  decayed  spire,  and 
the  cold  blasts  had  full  sway  in  the  church  through  broken 
roof  and  almost  paneless  windows.  The  forlorn  looking 
edifice  was  packed  to  overflowing  with  an  interested  audience, 
composed  largely  of  the  old  Catholic  settlers  of  Cleveland, 
who  had  worshiped  within  its  sacred  walls  in  earlier  years, 
when  they  were  in  the  prime  of  life  and  the  church  attractive 
in  appearance.  Now  the  old  Mother  church  of  Cleveland 
looked  tattered  and  torn,  while  her  daughters,  decked  in 
splendor,  were  carrying  aloft  in  every  part  of  the  city,  the 
Sign  of  Redemption  on  graceful  spire  or  lofty  tower. 

After  Mass  a  general  desire  was  expressed  to  have  the 
church  repaired  and  put  in  as  good  condition  as  it  was  when 
first  built — thus  to  be  preserved  as  a  relic  for  generations  of 
Catholics  of  Cleveland.  An  opportunity  was  offered  to  put 
into  execution  this  laudable  sentiment,  by  contributing  the 
money  necessary  for  the  proposed  expenditure,  estimated 
at  about  $2,000.  A  sum  less  than  $100  was  contributed, 
though  the  list  was  long  open  to  the  Catholic  public  of  Cleve- 
land. Hence  this  sentiment  was  dismissed  as  based  on  talk, 
and  tin-  tooth  of  time  was  allowed  to  still  further  gnaw  at  the 
venerable  church.  Meanwhile  the  heirs  of  the  original  grant- 
ors of  the  lots,  on  which  the  church  had  so  long  stood,  sued 
for  reversal  of  title  to  said  lots,  owing  t<»  non-fulfillment  pf 
condition,  mentioned  in  the  AccA  of  transfer.  They  based 
their  suit  on  this  fact,  that  now  and  for  some  years  past  the 
church  had  not  been  used  and  that  there  was  no  Catholic 
church  in  use  iii  the  pari  of  the  city  known  formerly  as 
Cleveland  Centre.  The  suit  was  heard  in  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon  Pleas  at   its  session   in  the  spring  of  [888.     A   compro- 


2  5  6  EARLY  CA  THOL I  CITY  IN  CL  E  VELAND. 

mise  decree  was  issued  ordering  the  sale  of  the  lots,  the  pro- 
ceeds to  be  divided  equally  between  the  diocese  of  Cleveland 
and  the  heirs  of  the  original  grantors.  To  clear  the  lots  pre- 
paratory to  their  sale  Bishop  Gilmour  had  the  church  torn 
down  in  September,  1888. 

For  fifty  years  old  St.  Mary's  had  witnessed  Catholicity's 
wonderful  growth  in  Cleveland.  When  begun  in  1838  there 
were  less  than  500  Catholics  in  Cleveland;  in  1888  there  were 
at  a  fair  estimate  no  less  than  60,000.  Then  there  was  no 
church  edifice;  now  twenty-five  Catholic  churches  grace  the 
city,  and  many  of  them  fit  for  cathedrals.  Then  there  was 
neither  religious,  charitable,  nor  educational  institution;  now 
each  of  the  city  churches  has  a  parochial  school;  a  seminary 
supplies  the  diocese  with  priests;  a  college  and  two  academies 
afford  higher  education  to  our  Catholic  youth;  hospitals  nurse 
the  sick,  asylums  shelter  the  orphan,  wayward,  aged,  and 
poor;  and  devoted  religious  have  charge  of  institutions  of 
learning    and    of  the    homes  provided  for   the   wards   of  our 

Lord. 

And  who  will  recount  the  many  happy  recollections  cen- 
tered around  the  church  on  the  Flats— now  no  more!  Many 
a  joyful  scene  was  witnessed  within  its  sacred  inclosure; 
many  a  sin-laden  heart  lightened;  many  a  tear  of  sorrow  and 
sadness  dried  by  the  consoling  words  of  confessor  or  preacher. 
In  it  marriage  solemnities  were  performed,  baptismal  waters 
poured,  and  the  last  sad  rites  of  burial  performed  for  thous- 
ands of  Cleveland's  Catholics.  Though  St.  Mary's  on  the 
Flats  is  of  the  past,  its  sacred  memories  will  remain  enshrined 
in  the  hearts  of  the  Catholic  pioneers  of  Cleveland  and  their 
immediate  descendants,  for  many  a  year  to  come — till  the  last 
of  them  shall  have  passed  from  mortality  to  immortality. 


[Old]  St.  Francis  de  Sales'  Church,  Toledo,  Ohio. 


HISTORICAL    SKETCH 


OF  EARLY  CATHOLICITY  AND  THE  FIRST  CATHO- 
LIC CHURCH  IN  TOLEDO,  OHIO. 

The  site  of  the  present  flourishing  city  of  Toledo  covers 
that  of  a  stockade  fort,  erected  about  1800,  near  what  is  now 
Summit  street,  and  known  in  the  history  of  Ohio,  as  Fort 
Industry.  Toledo  was  first  settled  in  1832  and  incorporated 
in  [836.  During  the  latter  year  the  Wabash  and  Erie 
Canal  was  located,  and  Toledo  made  its  northerly  ter- 
minus. In  1837  the  proposed  canal  was  let  by  the  state 
authorities.  The  contractors  made  every  effort  to  push  its 
construction  to  an  early  completion  and  to  this  end  secured 
a  large  force  of  laborers. *  Many  of  these  laborers  were  Irish, 
who  were  also  the  first  Catholics  to  come  to  Toledo.  As 
soon  as  Bishop  Purcell  heard  that  Catholic  laborers  were 
engaged  on  the  Wabash  canal  he  directed  the  Rev.  E.  Thien- 
pout,  then  (1837)  stationed  at  Dayton,  to  visit  them  and 
attend  to  their  spiritual  wants.  He  was  the  first  priest  to 
visit  Toledo.  Father  Collins  of  Cincinnati  was  the  next, 
commissioned  in  like  manner,  in  [838.  Both  he  and 
father  Thienpont  visited  all  the  Catholic  laborers  along 
the  canal  from  Toledo  to  the  Indiana  state  line,  making 
the  journey  on  horseback.  However,  owing  to  the  great  dis- 
tance they  ha'l  to  go  to  reach  their  temporary  charge,  their 
visits  were  not  regular.  Heme  Bishop  Purcell  made  other 
arrangements,  more  satisfactory  all  around,  by  appointing  the 
Revs.  J.  I'.  Machebeuf  and  Joseph  McNamee,  both  stationed 
at  Tiffin,   to  take  pastoral  charge  of  this  part  of  his  vast  dio- 

foledo     ami    the    missions    along     the     Wabash     canal. 


I|..\v. .  Ohio  lli-i.  full. ■oin 11-  pp, 


238  EARLY  CATHOLICITY 

This  was  done  by  Father  Machebeuf  for  two  months,  Novem- 
ber and  December,  1839,  and  by  Father  McNamee  from 
December,  1839  to  July,  1841. 

They  said  Mass  in  the  shanties  of  the  laborers  along 
the  canal  or  in  the  cabins  of  the  few  Canadians  residing 
in  and  near  the  town  of  Toledo.  In  a  communication  to  the 
Colorado  Catholic,  September  22,  1888,  Bishop  Machebeuf 
describes  his  first  visit  to  Toledo  in  November,  1839,  as  follows: 
"  Only  a  few  Catholics  were  in  Toledo  at  this  time.  I  said 
Mass  in  the  frame  shanty  of  a  poor  Canadian.  These  people 
having  some  Catholic  acquaintances  a  short  distance  up  the 
[Maumee]  river,  notified  them  of  the  opportunity  to  hear 
Mass;  and  all  of  them  attended.  There  being  no  suitable 
house  wherein  to  hold  divine  service,  I  rented  a  room  over  a 
drue  store,  constructed  an  altar  with  some  boxes,  which  I 
covered  with  calico.  This  was  the  first  church  of  good  Father 
Rappe,  when  he  was  sent  [to  Toledo]  two  years  later." 

In  1841  Bishop  Purcell  paid  his  second  episcopal  visit  to 
Toledo.  In  a  letter  to  the  Catholic  Telegraph  of  Cincin- 
nati, published  August  21,  of  that  year,  he  writes  of  Toledo 
as  follows: 

"This  place  is  in  all  probability  destined  to  be  one  of  the 
most  populous  commercial  cities  in  the  Northwest.  It  is, 
with  Maumee  and  Manhattan  in  its  neighborhood,  destined 
to  be  the  depot  of  the  railroads  and  canals,  especially  the 
Wabash  and  Erie  canal,  intersected  by  the  Miami  canal  and 
the  great  Southern  railroad  now  in  active  progress  all  along 
the  southern  shore  of  Lake  Erie  to  Buffalo.  It  is  likewise  the 
only  proper  point  for  the  termination  of  the  projected  rail- 
road from  Chicago,  to  unite  with  the  railroad  to  New  York, 
and  will  thereby  enjoy  the  advantages  of  much,  if  not  all,  the 
trade  circuitously  carried  on  between  Chicago  and  Buffalo, 
by  way  of  the  lakes,  an  interrupted  and  frequently  an  unsafe 
channel  of  communication.  A  railroad,  31  miles  in  length, 
from  Adrian,  Michigan,  is  now  completed  to  Toledo.  It  is 
contemplated  to  extend  this  road  to  the  southern  parts  of 
Michigan,   thus    forming  a  continuous  line  of  communication 


IN  TOIEDO,   OHIO.  239 

between   New   York   and   Michigan  and   Illinois,  and  the  far 
west  generally,  by  Toledo. 

"With  such  prospects  it  is  not  surprising  that  many  of  our 
Catholic  brethren  from  Ireland  and  Germany  should  have 
settled  here  in  the  vicinity  of  the  old  Catholic  Canadian 
French,  who  have  hitherto  attended  church  at  the  "  Bay 
Settlement,"  and  at  Monroe,  Michigan. 

"  Before  the  visit  of  the  Bishop  of  Cincinnati  to  Rome  it  was 
not  quite  certain  whether  the  tract  (formerly  claimed  by 
Michigan,  but  which  was  finally  adjudged  by  Congress  to 
Ohio),  belonged  to  his  spiritual  jurisdiction,  or  to  that  of  the 
Bishop  of  Detroit.  But  this  matter  having  been  decided  by 
the  Propaganda  in  favor  of  Cincinnati,  Rev.  Mr.  McNamce 
and  Rev.  Mr.  Machebcuf  are  the  only  clergymen  who  are 
recognized  as  pastors,  or  who  have  any  ordinary  jurisdiction 
in  this  part  of  the  diocese. 

"Church  [in  Toledo]  is  at  present  held  in  a  large  room 
rented  for  the  purpose  ;  but  arrangements  have  been  made 
either  for  the  purchase  of  a  church,  under  execution  for  the 
sum  of  $2,800,  to  be  paid  in  installments,  or  the  erection  of 
a  new  one  on  either  of  the  two  lots  offered  by  agents  of  pro- 
prietors of  much  of  the  soil. 

"The  Bishop  and  Very  Rev.  Mr.  Henni  preached  here  fre- 
quently— the  former  before  very  attentive  and  intelligent 
audiences  in  the  court  house.  After  one  of  his  sermons  a  few 
Protestant  gentlemen  present  came  forward  and  signed  their 
names  for  between  three  and  four  hundred  dollars  to  enable 
their  Catholic  brethren  to  purchase  or  build  a  church.  The 
Catholics  themselves  had  subscribed  $400  in  the  forenoon  of 
the  same  day. 

"  There  are  several  Indian  families  in  the  neighborhood  vt  ho 
live  anion-  the  French,  but  who  have  not  as  yet  joined  the 
Church.  *  *  Seven  persons  were  confirmed  and  a  large  num- 
ber partook  ofthe  1  [oly  ( lommunion.  The  election  ofa  church 
will   give  a  new  impulse  to  the  growth  and  prosperity  ol  this 

new   city,  which  has    been    rather   stationary    since    our  former 
visit,    four     years     ago.       Manhattan,    about      two    miles    from 


24o  EARL  Y  CA  THOLICITY 

Toledo,  nearer  the  mouth  of  the  Maumee,  contains  many 
families  of  Catholics,  who,  in  part,  attend  church  at  Toledo, 
but  the  Bishop  could  not  find  time  to  visit  them.     *     *     *" 

The  Rev.  Amadeus  Rappe  was  appointed  first  pastor 
of  Toledo,  where  he  resided  from  about  September,  1841, 
till  his  consecration  as  Bishop  of  Cleveland,  October, 
1847.  Shortly  after  his  arrival  at  Toledo  he  was  urged 
by  the  laity  either  to  build  a  church  (a  subscription  of  $1400 
having  been  raised  for  that  purpose)  or  to  purchase  the 
church  mentioned  above  by  Bishop  Purcell.  It  was  finally  • 
agreed  to  purchase  the  church — a  Presbyterian  (frame)  meet- 
ing-house, located  on  Superior  street,  its  present  site.  The 
purchase  was  made  about  December,  1842.  After  a  few  alter- 
ations the  building  was  converted  into  a  Catholic  church — the 
first  in  Toledo — and  dedicated  to  St.  Francis  de  Sales.  The  day 
of  its  dedication  was  one  of  joy  for  the  Catholics  of  Toledo,  now 
no  longer  obliged  to  worship  in  cabins,  shanties  or  halls. 
The  church  had  a  basement  which  Father  Rappe  had  fitted 
up  as  a  residence  for  himself,  with  room  enough  left  for  a 
school  to  be  established  eventually. 

During  Father  Rappe's  pastorate,  in  1845,  Toledo  was 
made  the  terminus  of  a  second  canal,  (known  as  the  Miami 
and  Erie  canal)  and  was  thus  connected  with  Cincinnati.  Its 
construction  helped  to  increase  largely  the  number  of  Catholic 
laborers  who  had  been  attracted  by  the  employment  offered 
them  in  the  construction  of  the  Wabash  and  Erie  canal. 

After  the  completion  of  these  two  important  enterprises 
many  of  the  employes  settled  in  and  near  Toledo,  and 
engaged  in  various  avocations.  Between  1838  and  1846 
Toledo  gained  an  unenviable  reputation  because  of  the  insid- 
uous  and  destructive  Maumee  Fever,  which  raged  with  vio- 
lence, especially  in  1838  and  1839,  and  greatly  impeded  the 
the  work  on  the  canal. 

In  1841  the  Wabash  and  Erie  canal  was  still  in  course  of 
construction.  "The  Maumee  Valley  was  full  of  Catholic 
laborers,  and  was  also  literally  a  land  which  devoured  its 
inhabitants.  The  Maumee  fever  spared  no  one,  and  slowly 
and    surely  undermined  the    strongest    constitution.     Toledo 


IN  TOLEDO,   OHIO.  241 

and  its  environs  were  full  of  malaria.  At  times  it  was  next 
to  impossible  to  meet  a  health)-  person.  Added  to  this  there 
were  many  cases  of  erysipelas,  and  in  1847  hundreds  of  ship- 
fever  stricken  emigrants  landed  at  the  Toledo  docks  to  die  a 
few  hours  after  their  arrival  among  strangers.""  Hence  the 
growth  of  Toledo  was  greatly  checked,  as  people  had  no  de- 
sire to  settle  where  sickness  of  a  malignant  type  stared  them 
in  the  face.  But  with  the  proper  drainage  and  grading  in  the 
city,  and  the  opening  up  of  the  surrounding  country,  Toledo 
has  long  since  lost  its  reputation  as  an  unhealthy  place. 

When  Father  Rappe  was  elevated  to  the  episcopacy,  Octo- 
ber, 1847,  Rev.  Louis  de  Goesbriand,  his  faithful  co-laborer 
since  January,  1846,  was  appointed  pastor  of  St.  Francis  de 
Sales',  Toledo.  Four  months  later  he  was  called  to  Cleve- 
land and  appointed  Vicar  General. 

Rev.  Philip  Foley  was  then  sent  to  Toledo,  where  he 
resided  from  February,  1848,  till  November,  1854.  He  had  as 
his  assistant  in  1848,  the  Rev.  James  Moran.  In  1849  St. 
Francis'  church  was  enlarged,  to  accommodate  the  Catholic 
Germans,  to  whom  separate  services  were  given,  viz.:  by  the 
Rev.  Sebastian  Sanner.  assistant  to  Rev.  Father  Foley, 
[849-51;  and  by  the  Rev.  Philip  Flum,  pastor  of  Maumee, 
from  1852,  till  1854.  January,  1854,  Rev.  Charles  Fvrard  was 
appointed  fust  resident  pastor  of  the  Catholic  Germans,  who 
continued  to  have  separate  service  in  St.  Francis'  church  till 
the  completion  of  their  own  (St.  Mary's),  October,  1856. 

November,  1854,  Father  Foley  was  succeeded  by  the  Very 
Rev.  A.  Campion,  who  had  charge  of  St.  Francis1  church  till 
May,  [856.  During  Father  Campion  s  pastorate  (December, 
1X54)  the  Crsulines  of  Cleveland  established  an  Academy  at 
1  'Actio,  to  succeed  tin-  oin-  founded  under  direction  of  Father 
Rappe  in  1846,  by  tin-  Sisters  of  tin-  Notre  Dame,  Cincinnati, 
hut  whirl)  was  closed  in  184.X,  for  want  of  support.  In  1855 
tin-  Grey  "Nuns  of  Montreal  opined  an  Asylum  for  orphan 
boj  s  and  girls. 

The  Rev.  Robert  A.  Sidley  was  appointed  Father  Campi- 
on's  successor   in  July,  1850,   and   had   charge  of  St.    Francis' 

'Bishop  de  Uoesbriand'a  "  Etemini nse"  in  OatHi  ■  ->.  Deo.  27,  18SS 


242  EARLY  CATHOLICITY  IN  TOLEDO. 

congregation  till  April,  1859,  when  the  Rev.  Felix  M.  Boff 
was  appointed  pastor.  He  remained  in  charge  till  October, 
1872,  when  he  was  called  to  Cleveland  and  assigned  the  pas- 
torate of  the  cathedral. 

From  1 854  till  1 87 1 ,  the  following  priests  were  assistants  at  St. 
Francis  de  Sales'  Church,  Toledo:  Revs.  James  Monahan,  1854, 
to  April  1,  1855;  VV.  O'Connor,  July,  1855  to  July,  1858;  John 
Ouinn,  to  December,  i860;  Thomas  F.  Halley,  to  July,  1861; 
Thomas  P.  Thorpe,  to  May,  1862;  Edward  Hannin  under  whose 
direction  St.  Patrick's  congregation  was  founded  in  December, 
1 862 ;  and  J.  B.  Couillard,  from  October,  1 869  to  February,  1 87 1 . 
So  great  was  the  growth  of  Catholicity  that  the  formation 
of  St.  Patrick's  did  not  seem  to  lessen  the  worshipers  at  St. 
Francis'.  The  old  fever-breeding  canal  disappeared  from  the 
midst  of  the  city;  new  streets  were  opened  and  old  ones 
improved. 

With  these  changes  came  new  settlers,  and  hence,  during 
the  pastorate  of  Father  Boff,  it  was  found  necessary  to  build  a 
temple  larger  and  more  substantial  than  the  proto-church  of 
Toledo.  Work  was  begun  in  1 862,  and  in  1 870  the  present  hand- 
some gothic  structure,  fronting  on  Cherry  street,  was  ready  for 
dedication.  It  was  a  day  of  rejoicing  for  pastor  and  people  when 
Mass  was  celebrated  for  the  first  time  in  this  imposing  edifice. 
It  was  also  the  close  of  a  chapter  in  the  history  of  the  more 
sacred  use  of  Toledo's  first  church  in  which  took  place  scenes 
similar  to  those  described  in  the  preceding  sketch  of  Cleve- 
land's first  House  of  Sacrifice.  But  the  old  and  venerable  struc- 
ture still  stands  as  a  silent  witness  to  Toledo's  phenomenal 
Catholic  growth  and  progress.*  Her  beautiful  offspring  now 
welcomes  the  Catholics  of  St.  Francis  de  Sales'  parish;  she  in 
turn  welcomes  their  children.  For  nearly  thirty  years  the  walls 
of  the  sacred  edifice  resounded  with  the  word  of  God  and  the 
chant  of  sacred  music;  now  they  re-echo  the  daily  recitations 
and  merry  play  of  the  parish  school  children.  Toledo's  first 
Catholic  church  having  well  served  its  purpose,  will  no  doubt 
soon  be  sacrificed  on  the  altar  of  time  and  disappear  forever 
as  the  first  land  mark  of  Toledo's  history  of  Catholicity. 
*  Sec  List  of  Churches  &c.  p.  210. 


REV.  EDMUND  BURKE.  243 

REV.  EDMUND  BURKE  IN  NORTH-WESTERN 

OHIO;    1795-6. 


Letter  from  John  Gilmary  Shea,  LL.  D. 

[The  writer  is  indebted  to  the  kindness  of  Mr.  John  Gilmary  Shea,  LL.  D., 
the  erudite  and  painstaking  historian  of  the  Church  in  the  United  States, 
for  the  following  very  interesting  letter. — G.  F.  H.] 

Elizabeth,  N.  J.,  Sept.  15,  1887. 

Rev.  DEAR  FATHER: — I  have  just  ascertained  something 
which  was  a  surprise  to  me,  and  may  perhaps  be  new  to  you. 
It  fills  a  gap  between  the  retirement  of  the  Jesuits  from  their 
Sandusky  mission  and  the  coming  of  Father  Fenwick  to  Ohio. 

A  priest,  and  a  man  of  mark  in  his  day,  who  became  in 
time  a  bishop,  and  Vicar  apostolic  of  Nova  Scotia,  was  for  a 
time,  in  1795-6,  a  missionary  in  Northern  Ohio.  This  was 
the  Rev.  Edmund  Burke,  a  native  of  Ireland,  and  evidently  a 
priest  of  the  diocese  of  Dublin,  before  he  came  to  Canada. 
He  was  the  last  priest  of  the  diocese  of  Quebec,  and  the  first 
English  speaking  priest  in  Ohio. 

The  Rev.  Edmund  Burke  was  born  in  Ireland  about  1743. 
He  came  to  Canada  May  16,  1787,  according  to  the  Abbe 
Tanguay,  who  adds  that  he  was  for  some  years  parish  priest 
at  Saint  Pierre  and  Saint  Laurent,  on  Isle  Orleans,  from  1791 
to  [794-  from  his  letters  he  was  evidently,  in  1794,  professor 
apparently  of  mathematics,  in  the  Seminary  of  Quebec. 
Hut  he  longed  for  priestly  work,  and  seeing  that  nothing  had 
been  done  to  continue  the  work  of  the  Jesuit  Fathers  among 
the  Indians  of  the  West,  after  the  suppression  of  the  Order, 
and  the  retirement  of  Father  Dujaunai,  who  struggled  on 
alone  unaided  and  hampered  for  some  years,  he  conceivedthe 
project  of  a  great  Indian  mission  in  the  West,  ami  wrote  to 
Archbishop  Troy,  of  Dublin,  to  induce  him  to  apply  to  the 
Sa<  red  C01  ition  of  the  Propaganda.      Hie  Prefect,  Card- 

inal Antonelli,  wrote  to  Bishop  Hubert,  of  Quebec,  in  regard 
to  the  matter,  and  thai  prelate  appointed  Rev.  Edmund 
Burke  his  vicar-general  for  Upper  Canada,  with  very  ample 


244  REV.  EDMUND  BURKE. 

powers,  soliciting  his  attention  especially  to  the  French  mis- 
sion on  Raisin  river,  now  Monroe,  Michigan.  He  set  out 
from  Quebec,  September  15,  1795,  encouraged  by  the  British 
authorities  in  Canada,  who  were  now  anxious  to  avail  them- 
selves of  the  influence  of  Catholic  priests  over  the  western 
Indians.  He  reached  Detroit,  and  was  at  Raisin  river  where 
he  dedicated  the  church  to  St.  Anthony  of  Padua.  But  on 
the  2d  of  February,  1796,  he  wrote  from  the  "Miamis"  to 
Archbishop  Troy.      He  says: 

"I  wrote  from  Quebec,  if  I  rightly  remember,  the  day 
before  departure  for  this  country;  am  now  distant  about  five 
hundred  leagues  from  it,  on  the  western  side  of  Lake  Erie, 
within  a  few  miles  of  the  Miami  fort,  lately  built  by  the 
British  government.  *  ~k  *  I'm  here  in  the  midst  of 
Indians,  all  heathens.  This  day  a  grand  council  was  held  in 
my  house  by  the  Ottawas,  Chippewas  and  Pottowatomis. 
These  people  receive  a  certain  quantity  of  Indian  corn  from 
the  government,  and  I  have  been  appointed  to  distribute  it. 
That  gives  me  a  consequence  among  them  which  I  hope  will 
be  useful,  as  soon  as  I  can  speak  their  language,  which  is  not 
very  difficult. 

"This  (is)  the  last  and  most  distant  parish  inhabited  by 
Catholics  on  this  earth;  in  it  is  neither  law,  justice  nor  sub- 
jection. You  never  meet  a  man,  either  Indian  or  Canadian, 
without  his  gun  in  his  hand  and  his  knife  at  his  breast.  My 
house  is  on  the  banks  of  a  river  which  falls  into  the  lake,  full 
of  fish  and  fowl  of  all  sorts;  the  finest  climate  in  the  world, 
and  the  most  fertile  lands.  *  *  *  Next  summer  I  go 
on  three  hundred  leagues  towards  Mackina,  or  Lake  Supe- 
rior, where  there  are  some  Christian  Indians,  to  see  if  I  can 
collect  them." 

He  solicited  the  erection  of  a  Prefecture  of  the  Indian 
Territory  of  the  West,  independent  of  Quebec,  Baltimore  and 
Louisiana,  but  this  was  not  carried  out.  This  letter,  I  think, 
enables  us  to  fix,  pretty  nearly,  the  spot  where  he  was.  The 
fort  was  that  erected  by  the  English  on  the  Maumee*,  and 


*Fort  Mei^s.  near  the  present  site  of  Perrysburg,  ami  opposite  the  present  town  of  Mau- 
niee,  Lucas  county,  Ohio. — H. 


REV.  EDMUND  BURKE.  245 

near  which  Wayne  defeated  the  Miamis  and  their  confeder- 
ates. There  were  probably  some  Catholics  among  the  soldiers 
in  the  fort,  and  his  letter  shows  he  had  Canadians.  His 
house,  where  he  must  have  said  Mass,  was  three  miles  from 
the  fort,  and  evidently  surrounded  by  the  Indian  camps.  He 
wrote  from  Detroit  in  May,  but  in  August,  1796,  in  a  letter 
from  Quebec  to  Archbishop  Troy,  says  that  he  received 
his  letter  of  November  30,  1795,  at  the  Miamis  in  February — 
that  is,  of  course,  February,  1796.  His  stay,  or  visits  to  Ohio, 
therefore,  extended  at  least  from  February,  1795,  to  February, 
1796,  and  possibly  a  little  longer. 

He  seems,  after  some  practical  experience,  to  have  aban- 
doned his  plans  of  great  Indian  missions.  In  1797  he  was  at 
Fort  Niagara.  In  1803  he  was  sent  by  the  Bishop  of  Quebec 
to  Halifax,  as  its  first  settled  pastor.  There  he  erected  the 
Glebe  House,  which  I  believe  is  still  the  residence  of  the 
Archbishop,  and  he  made  the  plans  and  laid  the  foundation  of 
St.  Marx's  Cathedral.  He  visited  Rome  in  1816,  and  the  next 
year  (July  4,  18 17,)  was  appointed,  by  Pius  VII,  Bishop  of 
Sion  and  Vicar  Apostolic  of  Nova  Scotia.  He  died  at  Hali- 
fax, December  1,  1820,  according  to  Archbishop  Hannan's 
sketch,  in  his  seventy-eighth  year. 

This  gives,  I  think,  Reverend  dear  friend,  another  Ohio 
priest,  short  as  was  his  stay,  and  one  too  conspicuous  to  be 
overlooked.  I  find  allusion  to  his  presence  in  the  West,  in 
sume  letters  of  Bishop  Carroll,  and  a  wandering  Dominican 
Father,  Le  Deu,  and  it  would  seem  that  when  the  English 
finally  retired  from  the  posts  which  they  had  held  in  contra- 
vention of  the  treaty  of  [783,  Rrv.  Mr.  Burke  wrote  to  Bishop 
Carroll,  and  may  have  thought  of  coming  to  the  diocese  of 
Baltimore. 

I  should  be  most  ungrateful  if  I  did  not  mention  that 
Bishop  Maes,  of  Covington,  who  has  written  a  sketch  of  the 
Church  at  Monroe,  first  told  me  of  Bishop  Burke's  having 
beer  al  Raisin  river;  then  I  found  him  in  the  Register  at 
<  >uebec.     *     :;:     *  Yours  most  sincerely, 

l<  >II\  GILMARY  SHEA. 

REV.   (..    V.    Hun  k. 


Catholic  Miscellanea 


-OF — 


prtherij  Ohio  and  the  Diocese  of  Cleveland. 


For  preservation  in  chronological  order  of  early  historical 
data  in  connection  with  the  churches,  &c,  in  Northern  Ohio 
and  diocese  of  Cleveland,  the  result  of  a  careful  search  of  old 
files  of  the  Cincinnati  Catholic  Telegraph  and  other  papers  in 
which  these  data  were  published,  is  here  presented.  It  is 
hoped  they  will  prove  of  interest  to  the  reader,  as  they  will 
also  no  doubt  be  of  value  to  the  future  historian  of  the  diocese. 
Omissions  supplied,  corrections,  changed  names  of  places  and 
churches,  &c,  will  be  found  in  brackets. 

NORTHERN    OHIO. 


CORRESPONDENCE,       DESCRIPTIVE      OF      BISHOP      FENWICK'S 
EPISCOPAL     VISIT     TO     NORTHERN     OHIO 

IN      1827. 

From   U.  S.  Catholic  Miscellany.  Charleston,  S.  C. ,  June  30,  1827. 

CANTON,  Stark  County,  June  1,  1827. 
*  *  The  missionary  Fathers,  Revs.  N.  D.  Young  and 
J.  I.  Million,  traveled  through  Belmont,  Harrison,  Jefferson 
and  Columbiana  counties  to  Canton,  Stark  county.  Here 
they  were  received  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  [he  had  preceded 
them  from  Zanesville  to  visit  the  pastor  of  Canton,  Very  Rev. 
John  A.  Hill,  then  seriously  ill]  who  was  anxiously  awaiting 
their  arrival  to  commence  the  Jubilee  in  St.  John's  Church. 


si .  Bernard's  Parochial  School,  Akron,  O. 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  247 

The  church  is  neat,  and  beautifully  situated  on  an  elevation 
overlooking  the  village.  We  spent  eight  days  here, 

as  usual,  the  people  attending  twice  a  day  with  zeal  and 
piety.  ">:"  *  Our  two  missionaries  then  proceeded  to  St. 
Paul's,  in  Columbiana  county  [now  St.  Philip  Ned's,  Dun- 
gannon].  The  building  is  of  brick,  not  yet  finished. 
At  the  solicitation  of  some  citizens  Rev.  M.  preached  to  a  very 
numerous  and  respectable  audience  in  the  court  house  of  that 
place.     Considerable  prejudice  was  removed  by  the  discourse. 


From  U.  S.  Catholic  Miscellany,  September  15,  1827. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 

St.  John's  [Canton],  Ohio,  29th  August,  1827. 

From  Canton  Revs.  N.  D.  Young  and 

J.  I.  Mullon  proceeded  to  a  congregation  in  Wayne  county, 
[near  the  present  village  of  Doylestown],  consisting  of 
about  15  families.  There,  according  to  appointment,  they 
were  met  by  those  pious  families  in  one  of  their  houses,  the 
most  convenient,  for  the  purpose  of  obtaining  the  benefits  of 
religion.  Previous  to  the  celebration  of  the  sacred  mysteries, 
one  of  the  missionaries  gave  a  long  and  satisfactory  explana- 
tion of  the  nature  of  the  Holy  Sacrifice.  He  also 
entered  upon  the  explanation  of  the  different  vestments  used 
in  the  celebration  of  Mass.  The  Holy  Sacrifice  having  been 
offered  a  Ion-  and  impressive  discourse  was  delivered  on  the 
unity  of  the  Church,  and  concluded  by  calling  the  attention 
ol  tin-  assembly  to  the  circumstance  of  the  last  ami  general 
judgment.  The  missioner  invited  those  present 
to  make  their  objections  to  anything  he  had  asserted,  ami 
said,  so  far  from  giving  him  offense,  it  would  be  a  sourer  ■  >! 
satisfaction  to  him  in  having  their  objections  thus  publicly 
made  that  he  might  then  have  an  opportunity  of  clearing  them 
up  before  In-  1 «  ft  tin-  place.  <  )ur  delay  anion-  these  good 
people  was  short,  having  been  so  Ion-  from  our  stations,  ami 
having  i"  visit  some  other  places,  urged  us  t->    leave  them 


248  CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA. 

sooner  than  in  other  circumstances  we  could  have  desired. 
*  -  In  this  settlement  a  church  is  now  on  hand,  and  we 
hope  will  be  in  readiness  for  service  against  the  next  visit  of 
their  worthy  pastor  [V.  Rev.  J.  A.  Hill,  of  Canton]. 


WOOSTER,  Ohio,  September,  1827. 

From  this  settlement  [Dungannon]  the  missionaries  went 
to  Wooster,  the  county  town  of  Wayne  county,  where,  at  the 
request  of  some  of  its  most  respectable  citizens,  one  of  them 
[Rev.  Father  Mullon]  preached  in  the  court  house  to  an 
audience,  chiefly  composed  of  Protestants  of  the  different 
sects,  among  whom  was  the  Presbyterian  preacher  of  that 
place.  *  *  In  the  vicinity  of  the  place  several  very 
respectable  Catholic  families  reside,  the  most  of  whom  were 
converts  from  Presbyterianism.  The  first  priest  who  visited 
this  part  of  the  state  was  our  present  zealous  Bishop.  About 
ten  years  ago  he  made  his  first  visit  to  this  sequestered  part, 
from  Kentucky,  where  he  then  resided.  Hearing  that  a  Cath- 
olic gentleman  resided  in  Wooster,  who  wished  to  have  the 
consolations  of  religion,  Doctor  Fenwick,  whose  zeal  for,  the 
salvation  of  souls  was  never  dormant  since  he  entered  into  the 
sacred  ministry,  hastened  to  this  part  of  the  state  for  the  pur- 
pose, though  distant  nearly  one  hundred  miles  out  of  his 
usual  route;  the  fatigues  of  the  journey,  the  many  privations 
he  had  to  endure,  were  no  obstacles  to  him.  On  his  arrival 
he  found,  as  he  was  informed,  only  one  Catholic  in  the  town, 
a  native  of  Ireland,  who  by  his  industry  and  correct  deport- 
ment had  become  independent,  and  was  at  the  time  engaged 
in  mercantile  business.  Before  Doctor  Fenwick  left  this  gen- 
tleman's house  he  had  the  consolation  to  receive  into  the 
communion  of  the  Church  his  whole  family. 


From  U.  S.  Catholic  Miscellany,  February  28,  1828. 

CANTON,  February,  1828. 
Thirty  Catholic  families    arrived  from    Lorraine,   France, 
at   Canton,  Stark  county.     The    chief  motive    that    induced 
these  industrious  and  respectable  emigrants  to  locate  them- 


CA  THOL IC  MISCELLANEA .  2  49 

selves  in  this  vicinity  was  the  convenience  of  having  a  Cath- 
olic church  at  Canton.  They  and  several  congregations, 
though  far  asunder,  arc  attended  at  present  by  the  Very  Rev. 
John  A.  Hill,  V.  G. 

FROM     BISHOP   FENWICK'S    REPORT   OF    HIS    EPISCOPAL     VISIT 

TO  NORTHERN    OHIO. 
From  Catholic  Telegraph,  October  29,  1S31. 

*  -  After  a  short  stay  at  St.  Joseph's  [Michigan],  the 
Bishop  proceeded  to  Detroit,  and  thence  to  Canton,  a  flour- 
ishing town  in  Stark  county,  Ohio.  Here  he  found  the  con- 
gregation much  increased  under  the  pastoral  care  of  Rev.  Mr. 
Henni.  Three  new  churches  were  commenced  within  twenty 
miles  of  Canton,  a  fourth  near  Norwalk  [Peru],  in  Huron 
county,  and  a  fifth  [St.  Mary's]  in  Tiffin,  a  new  and  flourishing 
county  seat  in  Seneca.     *     * 


CANTON,   OHIO. 

From  Catholic  Telegraph,  October  29,  183 1. 

We  learn  from  a  communication  to  the  Bishop  of  Cincin- 
nati, that  the  Rev.  Mr.  Henni,  pastor  of  the  Catholic  church 
[St.  John's]  in  Canton,  has  within  the  last  two  years  received 
21  adult  persons  into  the  Church,  besides  many  children  who 
followed  their  parents;  that  he  administered  the  Sacrament 
of  Baptism  to  269.  This  truly  zealous  and  indefatigable  mis- 
sionary has  been  compensated  for  his  toils  and  hardships,  in 
witnessing   the    rapid    and   astonishing   increase  of  his  flock. 


-:■:- 


OBITUARY  01   TIN".  RT.  REV.  EDWARD  FENWICK,  FIRM'  BISHOP 

ui     (  |\<  i\\  \  1  I.      DIED    A  I    WOOSTER,   OHIO, 

SEPTEMBER    J'"»,    1S32. 

71  Catholic   Telegraph,   October  6,   1S32. 

■   Our  venerated  and   beloved   Bishop  has  gone  to  reap  the 

reward  of  his   labors  and  trials,   leaving  us  the  memory   of  his 

worth,  the  example  of  his  virtues,  and  the  odor  of  his  sanctity. 
lb-  i>  deadl     Edward  Fenwick  is  no  more. 


250  CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA. 

Where  is  he  whose  approving  smile  was  ever  ready  to 
cheer  us;  whose  sympathetic  heart  shared  our  griefs,  and  the 
counsels  of  whose  wisdom  was  a  lamp  to  our  footsteps? 
Where  is  he  whom  we  were  accustomed  to  behold  at  the  altar 
of  his  God;  in  the  habitations  of  want  and  wretchedness;  by 
the  bedside  of  disease  and  pain;  or  in  the  rude  cabin  of  the 
simple  native  of  the  forest;  on  the  errand  of  mercy  and  the 
work  of  benediction?  Alas!  those  benignant  features  are 
stiffened  in  the  rigidity  of  death;  that  heart  beats  no  more  to 
human  hope,  or  joy,  or  feeling;  that  light  is  extinguished; 
and  the  dank,  cold  clods  of  the  valley  are  heaped  above  that 
majestic  and  venerated  form. 

In  the  poignancy  of  the  present  affliction  our  only  solace 
is  in  the  consoling  hope  that  his  removal  is  only  to  an 
entrance  on  the  happiness  of  the  beatific  vision  of  his  God,  in 
those  abodes  towards  which  his  longing  desires  were  ever 
directed,  and  where  all  his  treasures  were. 

This  occasion,  and  our  own  feelings,  will  neither  justify 
nor  permit  us  now  and  here  to  dwell,  at  length,  on  his  char- 
acter and  virtues — they  are  themes  which  hereafter  through 
our  pilgrimage  we  shall  recall  with  delight  and  gratefully  per- 
pend. They  will  only  allow  us  at  this  time  to  record  the 
manner  of  his  decease. 

He  was  on  his  return  homeward  from  Canton,  Stark 
county,  after  a  long  and  laborious  visitation  of  the  remoter 
parts  of  his  extensive  diocese,  during  which  his  heart  was 
consoled  for  the  disease  which  weakened  his  constitution  and 
the  fatigue  that  prostrated  his  strength,  at  beholding  the 
fruits  of  his  enlightened  charity  and  zeal.  The  prevailing 
epidemic  (cholera)  arrested  his  course  and  terminated  his 
mortal  career,  at  Wooster,  in  the  county  of  Wayne.      * 

We  add  the  following  letter,  addressed  by  Rev.  M.  Henni 
to  Rev.  J.  I.  Mullon,  editor  of  the  Catholic  TelcgrapJi  : 

Wooster,  Sept.  27,  1832. 

My  Dear  Friend. — P.  has  already  advised  you  of  the 
alarming  illness  of  our  good  Bishop.  A  task  of  most  heart- 
rending  character  remains   to  me,  to  announce    to  you   the 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  251 

event.      He  is  no    more  !      He  died  yesterday,  (Wednesday), 

at  twelve  o'clock,  and  was  immediately  interred.     I  witnessed 

only  the    mound   which   covers   his   remains.     Requiescat   in 

Pace  Your  most  affectionate, 

M.  HENNI. 


ST.    MARY'S    CHURCH,   TIFFIN,    OHIO. 
Catholic  Telegraph,  May  11,   1833. 

The  new  church  at  Tiffin,  Seneca  county,  in  this  state,  was 
opened  for  divine  service  on  Easter  Sunday,  on  which  occa- 
sion High  Mass  was  sung,  and  an  oppropriate  sermon 
preached  by  the  pastor,  the  Rev.  Edmund  Quinn.  A  few 
years  since  there  was  but  one  Catholic  family  in  that  section 
of  the  state,  now  giving  promise  of  becoming  the  fairest  and 
most  flourishing  portion  of  the  diocese. 

Through  the  piety  and  zeal  of  the  apostolic  missionary, 
who  labors  in  this  promising  field,  a  neat  and  commodious 
church  has  been  erected,  and  thus  the  fertile  country  around 
the  Sandusky  is  rendered  eligible  to  Catholic  emigrants,  who 
have  been  hitherto  deterred  from  locating  themselves  there 
by  the  impossibility  of  enjoying  the  consolation  derivable 
from  a  compliance   with   the  duties  of  their  religion,  at  too 

at  a  distance  from  a  church  or  a  resident  priest. 


REPORT    OF     BISHOP     PURCELL'S    VISIT    TO     NORTHERN    OHIO 

IN    [834.— DUNGANNON,  COLUMBIANA    COUNTY. 

[Extractor  letter  from   Bishop  Parcel!,  dated  Hanover,  Columbiana  county,  Ohio. 

June  16th,  18341- 

Catholic   Telegraph,  June  27,  1S34. 

*       *       After  a  late   Mass  on   Monday,  9th  of  June,  the 
Bfehop  left  the  house  of   Mr.  Gallagher,       *  and 

visited  the  family  of  Mr.  Jefifers,  where  he  had  the  satis- 
faction  to  see  ten  interesting  converts;  thence  he  pro- 
ceeded, accompanied  by  Mr.  Deloug,  who  numbers  not  fewer 
than  seventy  relatives,  converted  like  himself,  to  tin-  (  ath- 
olic   faith  ,.»n    tin-    road    to    St.    raid's   church,    [now    St.    Phil- 


25  2  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

lip's,  Dungannon,]  in  Columbiana  county,  where  he  arrived 
on  Saturday,  14th  inst.,  having  visited  several  Catholic 
residences  in  the  intervening  towns.  Rev.  Mr.  Henni,  of 
Canton,  had  arrived  the  day  previous  at  St.  Paul's  and  com- 
menced preparing  the  attending  members  of  the  congregation 
for  the  holy  sacraments.  The  interests  of  this  church  had 
been  for  some  time  grievously  neglected  and  the  ecclesiastical 
property  attached  to  it  misapplied.  The  exertions  of  the 
present  pious  clergymen  and  the  measures  taken  during  the 
episcopal  visitation,  will,  it  is  hoped,  efficiently  arrest  the  two- 
fold evil.  The  Church  of  St.  Paul  is  a  substantial  brick  edifice, 
recently  much  enlarged,  but  still  inadequate  to  the  increasing 
numbers  of  the  congregation.  It  is  attended  by  the  Catholics 
of  New  Lisbon,  Hanover,  and  a  thickly  settled  territory  of  ten  or 
twelve  miles  round.  The  Catholics  worshiping  at  the  church 
are  variously  estimated  at  from  eight  hundred  to  one  thousand 
souls.  They  have  no  resident  pastor.  There  were  only  six 
reputed  sufficiently  well  instructed  to  be  admitted  to  confirma- 
tion, and  it  was  truly  distressing  to  observe  that  many  had 
been  suffered  to  reach  their  twentieth  year  without  having 
been  imbued  with  the  first  elements  of  a  religious  education,  or 
received  any  other  sacrament  than  baptism. 


ST.   JOHN'S,    CANTON,    STARK    CO.;    VERY    REV.  JOHN   A.    HILL; 

LOUISVILLE,    CANAL   FULTON,    DOYLESTOWN, 

WOOSTER,    ETC. 

Bishop  Purcell  to  Catholic    Telegraph,  July  iS,    1834. 

Mansfield,  Richland  Co.,  July  3,  1834. 

Our  first  station,  after  having  left  St.  Paul's  Church  [near 
Dungannon],  was  at  Mr.  Crevaisier's,  in  Hanover,  where  a 
few  persons,  unable  to  attend  church,  received  the  Holy  Com- 
munion, and  one  child  was  baptised.  Similar  consolations 
were  afforded  to  the  Catholics  of  Paris,  fifteen  miles  distant, 
in  the  house  of  Mr.  James  Cassily.  Passing  by  Osnaburg  in 
the  public  stage,  we  had  not  time  to  visit  several  Catholic 
families,  chiefly  Germans,  inhabitants  of  that  town  and  vicin- 


CA  THOL IC  MISCELLANEA .  253 

ity.  Having  rendered  our  accustomed  and  solemn  homage 
to  the  Adorable  Sacrament  on  our  arrival  in  the  church  of 
Canton  [St.  John's],  the  seat  of  Stark  county,  and  knelt  in  the 
cemetery  by  the  remains  of  the  once  animated  temples  of  the 
Holy  Ghost,  destined  to  rise  more  splendid  from  their  present 
ruins,  we  became  unconsciously  absorbed  in  reflection  at  the 
humble  grave  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hill.  How  many  associations, 
pleasing  and  melancholy  to  the  soul,  did  not  that  sad  memo- 
rial awaken!  What  consistent  testimony  did  not  its  peaceful 
occupant  render  to  the  truth!  What  a  contrast  between  his 
and  the  conversion  of  certain  modern  proselytes!  Willingly 
did  he  descend  from  exalted  station,  relinquish  country,  debar 
himself  of  the  pleasures  of  a  society  which  he  was  so  emi- 
nently qualified  to  grace  and  adorn,  and  sever  the  dearest  ties, 
to  worship  at  the  shrine  of  that  mysterious  Catholic  religion, 
always  blackened  by  calumny,  but  ever  bright  with  holiness, 
always  assaulted  by  error,  but  never  overcome,  and  which  is  now 
going  forth  through  the  New  World,  as  it  has  gone  through  the 
old,  "conquering  and  to  conquer.'  The  following  epitaph,  a 
tribute  of  classic  as  well  as  sacerdotal  piety  to  the  memory  and 
virtues  of  the  deceased  ornament  of  the  American  priesthood, 
is  inscribed  on  a  plain  white  slab  placed  against  the  south  side 
of  the  church.  It  is,  we  understand,  the  composition  of  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Henni,  associate  pastor  of  the  Canton  congregation: 

D.  O.  M. 
Reverendus  Sacerdos  Dominus 

JOHANNES  AUGUSTINUS  HILL. 


Relictis  centuris  castris, 
Minervae  induit  anna 
Adscriptis  DOMINIC]  choro 
1'atris  premit  vestigia 
Patri  ignotis  in  Sylvis: 
l'ins  mitisque  animo 
Cams  et  ore  facumlus 

( )|»iit  iii  :.  Non.  Sept.  MDCCCXXVIII. 
Pulveri  eheul  fave  pulvis 

V  ivn  <  1 11 111  silet  turba. 


254  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

On  Sunday  Rev.  V.  Raymacher  [Dominican]  sang  Mass, 
and  the  Bishop  preached  in  the  morning,  and  again  addressed 
a  large  audience  in  the  afternoon.  The  Tuesday  following, 
Feast  of  St.  John  Baptist,  patron  of  the  church,  the  sacra- 
ment of  confirmation  was  administered  to  105  persons,  all  of 
whom  received  the  divine  Eucharist,  on  the  same  day.  The 
order  observed  during  the  dispensation  of  the  sacred  rite 
was  truly  edifying.  The  progress  of  Catholicity  in  this  sec- 
tion of  the  state  may  be  estimated  from  the  fact  that  there 
are  at  present  upwards  of  2000  communicants  in  part  of  the 
district,  attended  by  two  clergymen,  the  only  priests  in  Stark 
county,  where,  ten  years  ago,  there  were  scarcely  thirty  resi- 
dent Catholic  families.  This  extraordinary  increase  will 
appear  from  the  annexed  statement,  on  whose  correctness 
full  reliance  can  be  placed: 

Canton,  800  communicants;  Beechland,  [Louisville]  7 
miles  distant,  240;  Paris,  120;  Moreck,  15  miles  to  the  east, 
100;  [Canal]  Fulton,  130;  Sugar  Creek,  60;  Randolph,  in 
Portage  county,  18  miles  north  of  Canton,  120;  the  remainder 
are  in  Medina,  Chippewa  [Doylestown]  and  Tuscarawas, 
where  there  is,  unfortunately,  no  one  to  gather  the  harvest 
into  the  barns  of  the  Father  of  the  family,  but  tenacious 
Catholic  faith  alone  preserves  the  love  of  our  holy  institu- 
tions, cementing  the  unity  of  the  spirit  in  the  bond  of  peace. 
A  few  only  of  the  congregations  did  we  find  time  to  visit. 
Beechland  [Louisville]  is  principally  a  French  settlement. 
Church  is  held  in  the  house  of  Mr.  Joseph  Menegay,  which 
was  formerly  occupied  as  a  place  of  meeting  by  a  Baptist 
minister  and  his  congregation.  Bricks  to  the  amount  of 
120,000,  for  a  new  church,  are  now  in  the  kiln,  and  a  lot  of 
three-fourths  of  an  acre,  in  an  eligible  position,  near  a  recently 
laid-off  site  for  a  new  town,  has  been  given  by  Mr.  Lutzen- 
heizer.  The  ground  for  a  grave  yard  is  the  grant  of  Mr. 
Bideau,  and  forty-nine  acres  of  prime  land,  generously  conse- 
crated [?]  by  Messrs.  James,  Richard  and  Patrick  Moffit,  to 
which  five  others  have  been  added  by  the  good  Mr.  Menegay, 
are  now  recorded  in  the  Bishop's  name,  as  a  provision  for  the 
support  of  a  pastor. 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  255 

In  the  [Canal]  Fulton  church,  a  log  building  fifty  by  thirty, 
built  on  an  acre  lot  presented  by  Mr.  McCud,  and  not  yet 
dedicated,  there  were  fourteen  confirmed,  of  whom  five  were 
converts.  Messrs.  Pattern,  Bayle,  McCaddon  and  Eddington 
are  among  the  most  zealous  of  the  little  flock  and  names 
which  we  record  with  much  satisfaction. 

In  Sugar  Creek  church,  [Marshallville?]  Wayne  county, 
likewise  a  log  edifice,  small  and  inconveniently  situated,  there 
were  fourteen  communicants  and  four  confirmed  on  the  1st  of 
July.  The  Arnolds,  of  Allegheny  county,  Maryland,  have 
planted  the  mustard  seed,  and  they  now  cherish  its  growth  in 
this  lonely  place.     Among  the  baptized  there  was  one  convert. 

WOOSTER. 

Reaching  Wooster  late  at  night,  we  greatly  regretted  that 
we  could  not  sojourn,  at  least  one  day,  with  the  excellent 
Catholics  near  that  town.  The  dreariness  of  the  hour  and  the 
stormy  state  of  the  weather  were  in  perfect  accord  with  the 
feelings  inspired  by  the  sight  of  the  room  in  which  the  late 
Uishop  died  forlorn  by  every  one  but  his  God.  Filled  with 
the  most  serious  but  salutary  impressions  of  the  precarious 
tenure  by  which  we  hold  to  the  present  life,  we  left  the  town, 
after  a  short  and  broken  rest,  and  proceeded  over  a  wretched 
road,  33  miles,  to  Mansfield.  There  are  two  English  and 
several  German  Catholic  families  in  this  town,  but  many  more 
in  the  neighborhood.  They  are  very  irregularly  attended. 
Notwithstanding  the  briefness  of  the  notice,  there  were  15 
communicants  and  4  confirmed  in  the  house  of  Mr.  William 
Downey.  Deprived,  for  want  of  time,  of  the  pleasure  of  visit- 
in'.;  Chippewa,  [near  Doylestown]  where  Messrs.  G.  Whitman 
and  Peter  Marshall,  brother  to  the  Rev.  Francis  Marshall  of 
Maryland,  have  lately  conveyed  eighty  acres  of  good  land  to 
tin-  Bishop,  towards  the  support  of  a  priest;  and  unable,  for 
the  same  reason,  to  see  the  numerous  Catholic  families  newly 
settled  near  Bucyrus,  Crawford  county,  of  whose  attachment 
to  their  faith  and  praiseworthy  exertions  for  the  building  of  a 
church  we  have  heard  much  that  edified,  we  Kit  Mansfield  on 
the  jd  of  Jul)-,  hoping  to  reach  Paris  by  Truxville  the  same 


256  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

day.  In  this  we  were  disappointed;  and  after  a  costly,  dan- 
gerous and  unsuccessful  effort  to  cross  the  flooded  head- 
waters of  the  Mohican  [Wyandot?],  were  compelled,  with 
well  drenched  clothes  and  broken  carriage,  to  return  and 
think  of  the  patience  and  joy  of  the  Apostle  in  greater  labors 
and  disasters,  while  we  enjoyed  the  fireside  af  our  kind  host. 
To-morrow,  God  willing,  we  shall  renew  the  effort  to  reach 
Norwalk  by  Sunday,  and,  we  hope,  with  better  success.     *     * 


Catholic    Telegraph,  August  1,    1S34. 

EPISCOPAL  VISITATION.— NORTHERN  OHIO. 


LETTER   FROM    BISHOP   PURCELL. 

Dayton,  23d  July,  1834. 

We  shall  here  conclude  our  notes  of  the  episcopal  visita- 
tion. Reports,  which,  we  trust,  we  shall  find  to  have  been 
exaggerated,  having  reached  us,  of  the  reappearance  of  chol- 
era, under  alarming  circumstances,  at  Cincinnati,  induce  the 
Bishop  to  defer  visiting  the  remaining  Catholic  stations  on 
his  route,  and  repair  promptly  to  his  see,  in  order  to  unite 
with  his  reverend  and,  he  fears,  over-burdened  fellow-laborers, 
in  rendering  to  that  beloved  portion  of  his  flock,  the  spiritual 
consolation  and  relief  of  which  it  may  be  in  need. 

From  Mansfield  to  Paris  there  are  many  scattered  Catho- 
lics; we  had  time  to  visit  none  but  the  numerous  and  edifying 
family  of  Mrs.  Trux,  residing  near  the  last  mentioned,  new 
and  rapidly  growing  town.  The  number  of  professors  of 
"  the    faith    once    delivered    to  the   saints,"    increased   as   we 

approached 

NORWALK, 

seat  of  Huron  county.  Three  miles  from  the  town  is  a 
well  built  frame  church  under  the  pastoral  care  of  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Tschenhens,  of  the  Holy  Order  of  the  Redeemer,  foun- 
ded by  the  lately  canonized  Alphonso  de  Liguori,  an  Italian 
bishop.      The   church,   which   has   been    lately    erected,    was 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  257 

dedicated  to  the  Almighty  God,  under  the  invocation  of  that 
Holy  Prelate  and  zealous  patron  of  missions.  Previously  to 
the  ceremony  of  its  benediction  the  Bishop  addressed  the 
congregation  (to  whom  the  Rev.  Mr.  Henni,  of  Canton,  sub- 
sequently delivered  an  eloquent  and  impressive  discourse  in 
the  German  language)  and  was  obviously  much  impressed 
with  the  necessity  of  the  prayers  he  preferred  to  heaven 
being  granted,  when  he  besought  the  Divine  Disposer  of 
every  good  gift,  to  cherish  and  mature  the  mustard  seed,  thus 
sown  under  the  fostering  care  of  the  Redemptorists,  and 
thence  to  diffuse  the  blessings  of  the  only  true  and  living 
faith  over  an  extensive  territory,  where  its  influence  has 
hitherto  been  but  little  felt.  Rev.  Mr.  Tschenhens  is  now 
aided  by  two  pious  lay  brothers,  and  is  soon  to  be  joined  by  a 
zealous  clergyman  of  his  Order,  from  Michigan,  and  a  consid- 
erable reinforcement  from  Vienna,  who  are  thought  to  be  now 
on  their  voyage  to  the  distant  and  unknown  settlement  in 
the  West.  After  the  dedication  of  the  church,  the  cemetery 
was  blessed,  and  19  were  confirmed. 

At  the  request  of  several  of  the  citizens,  the  Bishop  preached 
in  the  court  house  at  Norwalk.  The  day  following  he  was 
accompanied  by  Revs.  Messrs.  Henni  and  Tschenhens  to 
Lower  Sandusky  [Fremont]  where  the  divine  sacrifice  was 
offered  at  the  residence  of  Madame  Beaugrand.  There  are 
not  man)-  Catholics  settled  in  the  town,  but  several  families 
have  lately  arrived  in  its  vicinity.  A  lot  for  a  church  was 
promised  by  esteemed  friends  to  the  holy  cause  of  truth,  and 
pecuniary  assistance  will  not,  it  is  believed,  be  withheld  when 
the  seasonable  time  for  the  commencement  of  the  church  shall 

have  arrived. 

TIFFIN. 

We  were  much  disappointed  at  finding  the  church  [St. 
Mary's]  of  Tiffin  still  unfinished.  It  has  not  yet  been  dedi- 
cated. I  )u  Sunday,  1  jth  of  July,  there  were  100  communi- 
cants, and  mi  the  following  Tuesday  26  were  confirmed. 
Exclusive  of  the  Germans,  to  whom  Revs.  Messrs.  Henni 
and  Tschenhens  frequently  preached  during  their  stay  in  the 


258  CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA. 

town,  there  is  a  large  and  fervent  congregation  from  the 
neighborhood  of  Emmittsburg,  Mt.  St.  Mary's  and  Westmin- 
ster, Frederick  county,  Md.  They  are  the  hope  of  religion  and 
will  long  continue,  as  we  fondly  and  devoutly  trust,  to  enhance 
their  Bishop's  joy  and  pastor's  crown  in  the  remote  and  peace- 
ful habitations  they  have  chosen.  Rev.  Mr.  Quinn,  who  has 
hitherto  attended  this  congregation,  resides  at  the  distance 
of  five  [?]  miles  from  Tiffin,  and  has  had  to  minister  to  the 
spiritual  wants  of  the  Catholics  of  a  circumference  of  nearly 
forty  miles,  the  roads  at  any  season  of  the  year,  but  particu- 
larly in  the  winter,  being  of  the  very  worst  description. 

Mc  CUTCHENVILLE. 

In  McCutchenville,  10  miles  from  Tiffin,  a  charming  lot  of 
2§  acres  has  been  ceded  to  the  Bishop  and  his  successors  in 
office  by  Mr.  William  Arnold,  and  a  considerable  sum  has  been 
subscribed  by  Messrs.  McLaughlin,  Berton,  Noel  and  other 
Catholics  and  Protestants  for  the  erection  of  a  church.  Two 
other  churches  are  spoken  of  and  would  indeed  be  necessary, 
for  German  congregations,  five  miles  in  different  directions 
from  Tiffin. 


REPORT    OF    EPISCOPAL    VISITATION    MADE    BY 

BISHOP  PURCELL. 


Catholic   Telegraph,   September  4,    1835. 

DUNGAXXOX. — NEW    LISBOX. 

St.  Paul's  [near  Dungannon]  was  visited  on  the  first  Sun- 
day of  August.  The  Bishop  found  the  congregation  much 
increased  and  anxious  to  secure  the  services  of  a  resident 
priest.  This  a  favor  which  it  was  not  in  his  power  to  grant. 
However,  on  two  Sundays  of  every  month,  until  God  is 
pleased  to  send  more  numerous,  pious  and  efficient  laborers 
into  His  vineyard,  the  spiritual  wants  of  the  congregation  will 
be  supplied  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Conlan,  from  Steubenville.  The 
number  of  Catholics  in  the  town  of  New  Lisbon,  six  miles 
from    St.   Paul's,  has  likewise  been   much   augmented  by  the 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  259 

contractors,  laborers  and  men  of  business  attracted  to  the  spot 
since  the  commencement  of  the  Sandy  and  Beaver  canal. 
The  divine  mysteries  were  celebrated  in  the  house  of  a  French 
Catholic,  and  on  Monday  evening  the  Bishop  preached  in  the 
court  house  to  a  large  and  attentive  audience.  The  Catholics 
of  New  Lisbon  are  anxious  for  the  erection  of  a  church,  but  it 
has  been  recommended  to  them  to  enlarge  and  finish  the 
building  at  St.  Paul's,  before  they  undertake  to  build  another 
so  near  it.  In  time,  we  trust,  there  will  be  a  creditable 
church  in  either  place. 

CLEVELAND. 

The    Catholic  congregation  of   Cleveland  has  been  very 
recently  organized.     It  consists  of  not  more  than  three  hun- 
dred members.     They  are  all  poor  in  this  world's  wealth,  but 
rich   in  the    faith    and    hope    which    ensure    their    professors 
those  treasures  which    rust  cannot  consume,  nor  earthly  dis- 
tinction   affect,  and    which  are  forfeited  by  vice    and    wilful 
error.     A  merchant  of  Cleveland,  Mr.  Clark,  has  presented  a 
lot,   in    Brooklyn,    which   is  connected   and  almost  identified 
with  Cleveland,  by  a  bridge  thrown  over  the  Cuyahoga  river. 
On  this   lot  [not  used;  first  church    was  built  on    'Flats"   in 
Cleveland  centre.— H.]  it  is  intended  to  erect  a  church  during 
the    present  season   and  from  the   friendly  and  liberal  spirit 
evinced  by  the  Protestant  citizens  of  the  town  and  the  spirited 
exertions   which  the  Catholics  are   resolved  to  make,  we  have 
no  doubt   but  that   the   voyager  on    Lake   Erie   will   soon    be 
cheered,  in  his  approach  to  this  safe  harbor,  by  the  aspect  of 
the  Sign  of  our  Redemption.     We  were  delighted  to  hear  how 
greatly  the  religious,  moral  and  social  condition  of  the  Catho- 
lics in  the  vicinity  of  Cleveland,  'who  had  previously  enjoyed 
no  means  of  instruction,  has  been  improved  by  the  unremit- 
ting  exertions    of  their   pastor,    Rev.    Mr.    Dillon.     May  the 
divine  blessing  continue  to  remove  the  obstacles  which  could 
mar   the  projects,  or  impede  the  success  of  this  interesting 
little  flock. 

CUYAHOGA    FALLS. 

At  this  place,  which  is  thirty  miles  from  Cleveland,  there 
are  a  few  Catholic-,  hut   many  more  dispersed  through  the 


260  CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA. 

country  around.  Many  of  the  influential  citizens,  who  belong 
to  no  religion,  but  who  are  shocked  at  the  disreputable  acts 
resorted  to,  for  the  disparagement  of  the  Catholics  among  a 
people  who  have  little  opportunity  of  judging  of  them  but 
from  the  caricatures  exhibited  by  sectarians,  have  strongly 
urged  with  promises  largely  to  contribute  to  the  building  of 
a  Catholic  church.  [No  church  built  at  C.  F.  till  1884. — H.] 
It  will  be  impossible  to  accede  to  their  request  before  the 
completion  of  the  church  in  Cleveland.  Meantime,  they  shall 
hear  the  word  of  Catholic  truth  announced  at  stated  visits, 
by  Rev.  Mr.  Dillon. 

RANDOLPH. 

The  first  movement  of  German  Catholic  in  a  new  settlement 
is  to  build  a  church  and  school  house  of  the  cheapest  and 
most  accessible  materials.  To  improvements  in  the  condition 
of  the  country,  and  their  own,  they  wisely  adjourn  the  con- 
struction of  more  costly  and  substantial  edifices.  Within  one 
mile  of  Randolph  [Centre]  in  Portage  county,  there  is  a 
Catholic  German  congregation  who  have  raised  a  small,  but 
remarkably  neat  log  chapel  and  school  house,  thereby  evinc- 
ing a  laudable  attention  to  the  instruction  of  their  children, 
and  a  becoming  zeal  for  the  religion  of  their  fathers.  The 
congregation  consists  of  forty-five  families,  and  of  this  little 
community,  it  is  said,  in  addition  to  other  praise,  that  there 
is  not  a  solitary  instance  of  habitual  or  occasional  intemper- 
ance to  stain  its  early  and  humble  history!  On  the  22d  inst. 
[August,  1835],  Rev.  Mr.  Saenderl  [Redemptorist],  who 
accompanied  the  Bishop,  sang  High  Mass,  in  which  the  entire 
congregation,  young  and  old,  joined  in  admirable  accordance  ; 
there  were  fifty-three  communicants  and  twelve  confirmed. 
Several  Catholic  families,  not  before  heard  of,  attended  from 
a  distance  of  ten  or  fifteen  miles,  or  requested  through  those 
who  were  able  to  come,  that  they  may  be  visited  by  a  priest. 
Measures  were  promptly  taken  to  afford  them  this  conso- 
lation.    *     * 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  261 

REPORT  OF  EPISCOPAL  VISITATION  BY 
BISHOP  PURCELL. 


Catholic    Telegraph,  September  11,  1835. 

LOUISVILLE,  O. 

Beechland  [near  Louisville],  Stark  county. — This  congre- 
gation has  suffered  from  the  want  of  pastoral  attention  for 
several  months.  Still  the  members  of  the  building  committee 
have  not  neglected  the  collection  of  materials  for  the  erection 
of  a  church  in  the  newly  located  and  fast  progressing  town  of 
Louisville.  Eighty-one  thousand  brick,  and  much  of  the 
gross  timber  for  the  construction  of  the  church,  are  now  on 
the  selected  site,  and  the  Bishop  was  cordially  seconded  in 
his  earnest  desire  for  the  completion  of,  at  least,  the  shell  of 
the  building,  before  the  setting  in  of  the  winter.  The 
resources  of  the  congregation  are  fully  adequate  to  the  sup- 
port of  a  priest,  and  promises  have  been  given,  which  it  is 
hoped  the  Divine  Lord  of  the  harvest  will  enable  us  to  realize, 
that  a  worthy  laborer  shall  be  speedily  placed  at  their  head, 
to  lead  them  onward  in  union,  strength  and  piety.  The  holy 
mysteries  were  celebrated  in  the  large  dwelling  of  Mr.  Eck,  a 
Catholic  lately  arrived  from  Pennsylvania,  and  many  persons 
were  admitted  to  holy  communion  and  confirmation. 

ST.    JOHN'S,    CANTON. 

This  healthy  and  popular  town  appears  destined  to  enjoy 
its  share  of  the  growing  prosperity  of  the  West.  Its  citizens 
air  now  engaged  in  urging  on  to  completion  a  cross-cut  from 
the  <  »hio  and  Erie,  <>r  Sandy  and  Beaver  canal.  The  church 
is  far  too  small  for  the  greatly  increased  numbers  of  the  con- 
gregation, and  notwithstanding  the  contemplated  formation 
of  several  distinct  missions  in  its  neighborhood,  it  will  be 
necessary  t<>  erect  a  new  church  on,  or  near,  the  site  of  the  old 
one,  to  accommodate  the  Catholics  and  numerous  enquirers 

alter  religious  truth  at  present  residing  in  the  town.        At  the 

requesl  of  many   of  the  citizens  the  Bishop  preached  t<>  an 

unusually    large    assemblage    in    the   court    house   on    Sunday 


262  CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA. 

evening,  August  23d.  The  Rev.  gentleman  of  the  Order  of 
St.  Dominic,  to  whose  arduous  and  untiring  efforts  for  the 
promotion  of  faith  and  morals,  during  many  years,  the  dio- 
cese of  Ohio  owes  a  large  debt  of  gratitude,  has  lately  sur- 
rendered* the  Canton  congregation  to  the  care  of  the  Bishop. 
This  measure  was  exclusively  owing  to  the  impossibility,  on 
the  part  of  the  Order,  of  attending  to  this  distant  mission, 
while  the  congregations  of  Zanesville,  Somerset  and  Lancas- 
ter require  more  than  the  time  and  pains  which  have  been 
bestowed  on  their  spiritual  instruction  and  improvement  in 
former  years.  Rev.  Mr.  Saenderl,  Superior  of  the  Redemptor- 
ists,  and  Rev.  Mr.  O'Bairne  have  been  entrusted  by  the  Bishop 
with  the  care  of  the  congregation. 


EPISCOPAL  VISITATION— NORTHERN  OHIO. 


Bishop  Puree II  to  Catholic  Telegraph,  September  15,  1S36 
TIFFIN,    ST.    MARY'S. 

Very  Rev.  S.  T.  Badin  and  Rev.  H.  D.  Juncker  having 
reached  Tiffin  several  days  before  the  Bishop,  prepared  the 
congregation  for  the  reception  of  the  Sacraments.  There 
were  only  23  confirmed.  The  church  is  under  the  care  of  the 
Redemptorists  [stationed  at  Peru,  Huron  Co.]  whose  number, 
we  regret  to  say,  has  not  been  hitherto  large  enough  to  admit 
of  their  devoting  the  necessary  time  to  the  instruction  and 
spiritual  wants  of  the  diocese.  Four  clergymen,  at  least, 
would  be  required  for  Seneca  county,  in  which  are  five  [four?] 
churches  at  the  present  time  [Tiffin,  Thompson,  Wolf 's  Creek 
and  McCutchenville]  in  progress  of  building.  Numerous  sects, 
of  whose  very  name  the  Bishop  had  never  heard  before,  are 
swarming  through  the  villages  in  this  and  Crawford  eounty. 

The  Tiffin  and  McCutchenville  congregations  are  com- 
prised of  the  very  best  materials;  they  have  been  lately  much 
augmented  by  emigrants  from  Maryland,  Pennsylvania  and 
some  parts  of  Europe.      The   Germans  in   their  vicinity   are 

*The  Dominicans  reassunied  charge  of  St.  John's.  Canton,  about  1837,  retaining  it  till 
1S42.-H. 


CA  THOLIC  MIS  CELL  A  NEA .  263 

peaceful,  industrious  and  full  of  zeal  for  the  diffusion  of  our 
holy  religion,  for  their  own  edification  and  the  instruction  of 
their  children.  The  Tiffin  church,  the  shell  of  which,  only, 
has  been  so  long  built,  will  be  completed  and  ready  for  dedi- 
cation this  fall.       *       * 

FREMONT;    LA  PRAIRIE. 

Lower  Sandusky  [Fremont]  and  the  French  congregation 
of  Muddy  Creek  [La  Prairie],  consisting  of  20  or  30  families, 
are  still  destitute  of  a  church.  From  the  well  known  liberal- 
ity, respectability  and  intelligence  of  many  of  the  inhabitants, 
we  have  no  doubt  but  means  will  soon  be  furnished  to  erect 
in  this  interesting  vicinity  a  new  and  neat  little  monument  to 
the  Faith  of  ages.  We  shall  look  with  confidence  for  its  com- 
pletion by  the  coming  year.       *       * 


CANTON,    ST.   JOHN'S. 
Catholic  Telegraph,  December  23,  1836. 
Rev.  Dr.  Hoffmann  will  visit  the  Catholics  of  Columbus  at 
the    feast    of  Christmas.      He  will  thence  proceed  direct   to 
Canton,  where,  we  are  happy  to  announce,  will  be  his  future 
residence  as  pastor  of  the  Catholic  congregation.      Cordially 
do  we  congratulate  our  brethren  at  Canton  on  their  acquisition 
of  so  learned  and  zealous  a  spiritual   guide  as  Dr.  Hoffmann, 
and  we  sincerely  hope  that  his  pious  instructions  and  edifying 
manners  will  soon  make  them  forget  their  late  destitution  of 
pastoral   encouragement  and   succor.      We  trust   some  of  the 
prominent   members  of  the  congregation   will,  without   delay, 
prepare  the  presbytery  for  his  reception. 


I    WT    LIVERPOOL,    OHIO. 
Catholic  Telegraphy  May  30  and  June  6,  1839. 

Measures  are  in  progress  for  the  erection  of  a  church  in 
this  nourishing  village  [East  Liverpool],  A  lot  has 

been  secured  and  a  subscription  commenced.     This  is  owing 


264  CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA. 

to  the    zeal   of   Rev.   James   Conlan,   pastor  of    Steubenville, 
who  attends  [this  and]  several  neighboring  missions. 
Rev.  Mr.  Conlan  is  making  an  appeal  to  our  Catholic  breth- 
ren in  behalf  of  this  infant  congregation,  to  which  we  hope 
there  will  be  a  liberal  response. 


DIOCESE    OF    [CINCINNATI]    OHIO. 
Bishop  Purcell  to  Catholic  Telegraph,  February  15,  1840. 

It  is  a  subject  of  no  small  gratification  to  the  Western 
Catholics,  to  observe  the  sure  and  steady  progress  of  the 
Church  throughout  this  extensive  portion  of  our  country. 
About  twenty-two  years  ago  there  was  but  one  building  in 
this  state  on  which  the  Sacred  Cross  was  raised,  to  cheer  the 
heart  of  the  emigrant  as  he  journeyed  to  some  "  promised 
land  "  in  search  of  home  and  happiness.  Our  religion  was 
then  associated  with  a  thousand  evils  in  the  minds  of  the 
inhabitants;  truth  had  a  mountain  before  it,  towering  to  the 
clouds,  which  it  had  to  move  from  the  path  before  it  could 
make  further  progress  on  its  holy  errand.  The  laborers,, 
however,  were  not  disheartened — "  courage  mounteth  with 
occasion;" — and  they  commenced  to  toil  in  the  good  cause, 
calmly  but  resolutely,  conscious  that  their  duty  was  being 
fulfilled,  and  trusting  in  the  Lord  for  a  successful  result. 
Already  have  many  of  their  expectations  ben  realized.     *     * 

We  have  reason  for  congratulation,  and  as  we  justly  enter- 
tain a  preference  for  the  immediate  scene  of  our  labors,  we 
can  often  see  through  the  parting  gloom  of  the  present  many 
bright  and  cheering  vistas  of  future  glory  for  our  diocese.  In 
six  years  the  number  of  clergy  has  increased  from  nineteen  to 
thirty-four.  In  the  almanac  for  this  year  Ohio  has  credit  for 
two  charitable  institutions,  but  we  have  now  five  in  operation. 
It  is  also  stated  therein,  that  we  have  24  churches  in  Ohio, 
now  the  number  is  32,  and  before  the  ensuing  almanac  is 
ready  for  the  press,  we  hope  to  have  still  better  news  to 
impart  to  those  who  love  to  see  the  Church  flourishing  and 
prosperous,  no  matter  where  it  may  be  planted.     *     * 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  265 

DEDICATION  OF  THE  CHURCH  OF    "OUR  LADY  OF  THE  LAKE," 

[ST.  MARY'S  ON  THE    "FLATS"],  CLEVELAND,  O., 

JUNE  7,   184O. 

Catholic  Telegraphy  June  20,  [840. 

Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  de  Forbin-Janson,  Bishop  of  Nancy  and 
Toul,  France,  and  Bishop  Purcell  of  Cincinnati,  left  Buffalo 
on  the  steamboat  Constitution  at  8  P.  M.  on  Friday,  5th  of 
June  for  Cleveland.  At  Fairport,  30  miles  from  the  last  men- 
tioned place,  they  were  overtaken  by  a  violent  storm,  during" 
which  the  vessel,  which  was  very  heavily  laden,  labored  a 
great  deal  and  made  but  little  headway,  so  that  they  did  not 
reach  their  destination  for  many  hours  after  the  usual  time 
employed  in  making-  the  trip.  They  were  both,  as  were 
nearly  all  their  fellow-travelers,  gloriously  sea-sick  and  soaked 
with  surf  from  the  swollen  waters,  and  the  good  Bishop  of 
Nancy  was  moreover  at  one  moment  in  imminent  danger  of 
serious  injury  from  the  falling  of  a  high  and  heavy  pile  of 
cases  of  merchandise  in  a  sudden  lurch  of  the  ship.  Finally 
the}-  disembarked  in  safety,  at  5  A.  M.,  on  Sunday  morning, 
4  luspice  Maria. 

The  Bishop  of  the  diocese  was  agreeably  surprised  to  find 
that  all  the  work  which  he  had  directed  to  be  done  at  the 
new  church  by  Mr.  Golden,  the  architect,  had  been  not  only 
faithfully  performed,  but  that  the  altar  and  the  plastering, 
etc.,  had  likewise  been  very  neatly  executed.  lie  accord- 
ingly resolved  not  to  lose  so  favorable  an  occasion  of  dedi- 
cating it.  The  zealous  Bishop  of  Nancy,  who  seems  to  have 
never  known  what  it  is  to  be  weary  in  well  doing,  kindly 
consented  to  dedicate  tin-  church,  which  he  did  according  to 
the  Roman  ritual,  and  in  full  pontificals,  after  which  he 
celebrated  Nigh  Mass,  which  was  wonderfully  well  sung  in 
plain  chant  by  the  choir.  *  *  *  Bishop  Purcell  preached 
to  a  very  intelligent  and  attentive  auditory,  before  and  alter 
the  ceremony. 

Tlie  church  measures  81  by  53  feet,  having  four  well 
wrought  Doric  columns  in  front,  a  light  but  substantial  gal- 
lery, or  organ  loft,  handsome  ceiling,  etc.,  and  conveniently 


266  CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA. 

situated  on  Columbus  street,  between  the  two  [?]  congre- 
gations of  Cleveland  and  Ohio  City  [?].  *  *  *  [Church 
was  taken  down  September,  1888. — H.]* 


EPISCOPAL  VISITATION.— NORTHERN    OHIO. 


Bishop  Purcell  to   Catholic    Telegraph,  July  4.    1S40. 

Liverpool,  Medina  Co. 
After  his   departure   from  Cleveland  [June   8],  the  Bishop 
visited  two  Catholic  families  near  Strongville  [Cuyahoga  Co.] 
who  had   not   been  favored  with  the  presence  of  a  priest  for 
several   years.     *     *     *     He  was  there    met    by    a    deputa- 
tion of  German    Catholics,  of  Liverpool,   Medina  county,   by 
whom  he  was  attended  to  the  residence  of  Mr.  Lawling,   in 
which  service   is  generally  held  for  the  neighboring  Catholic 
inhabitants.       The  next  morning  a  large  number  of  the  faith- 
ful, living  on  the  east  and  west  banks  of  Rocky  river,  assem- 
bled on  the  occasion,  in  virtue  of  a  previous  notice  sent  there 
from  Cleveland.      These  formed  in  procession  and  jiroceeded, 
chanting  the  Miserere,  to  the  graveyard,  where  the  Bishop, 
in  mitre  and  crosier,  blessed  the  graves  of  a  few  persons  thus 
solitarily  buried,  and  gave  an  instruction  to  the  bystanders  on 
the    nature    of  the    ceremony  and  the    circumstances    under 
which  one  or  two  of  their  brethren,  who  were  there  interred, 
had  died.     Rev.   Mr.  O'Dwyer  then  offered  the  holy  sacrifice, 
and  the  Bishop  preached  on  the  worth  of  the  soul.      Many 
well-inclined  Protestants  were  present.     It  was  thought  expe- 
dient to  recommend  the  construction  of  two  churches,  one  at 
each  side  of  the  river,  which  is    often  too  much  swollen  to 
admit  of  being  safely  forded.     Materials  have  been  prepared 
for    these    purposes,    and  we    hope    to    learn    soon    that    the 
churches  have  been  built.      [In  1842  a  log  church  (St.  Mary's) 
was  built  east  of  Rocky  river,   in   the  hamlet  of  Abbeyville, 
later  replaced  by  a  brick  structure,  but  long  since  abandoned. 
In  the  same  year  a  log  church  was  also  erected   west  of  same 

•See  Historical  Sketch,  p.  226. 


CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA.  267 

river,  one  mile  from  Liverpool  Centre.  This  was  replaced  in 
1 86 1  by  the  present  brick  edifice,  known  as  St.  Martin's, 
Liverpool,  Medina  Co. — H.] 

DOYLESTOWX. 
About    noon    the    Bishop  left    [Liverpool]    for    Chippewa 
[near  Doylestown]  in  Wayne  county,  accompanied  by  five    of 
the  congregation  on  horseback.  After  straying  a 

few  miles  from  the  right  road,  the  party  reached,  before  sun- 
down, the  residence  "of  Rev.  Mr.  Schorb,  pastor  of  the  congre- 
gation. Next  day  the  Bishop  visited  Mr.  Marshall  and  Mr. 
Whitman,  two  zealous  Maryland  Catholics,  who  have  given  a 
valuable  tract  of  seventy-eight  acres  of  land  for  the  support 
of  a  presbytery,  and  who  are  now  engaged  in  redeeming  a 
pledge  by  them  voluntarily  and  generously  given  to  build  a 
church  and  a  dwelling  for  a  priest  at  their  own  expense.  The 
cost  of  the  buildings  cannot  be  under  seven  or  eight  hun- 
dred dollars.  Other  members  of  the  congregation  rival  their 
charity  in  supplying  the  church  with  suitable  vestments,  and 
in  no  other  part  of  the  diocese  has  the  Bishop  witnessed 
more  zeal,  humility  and  fervor  than  in  this  sequestered  and 
delightful  spot.  Surely  the  divine  mercies  are  for  such  a 
people.  The  number  of  communicants  has  been  more  than 
doubled  since  the  arrival  of  the  pastor,  being  now  eighty-five. 
In  [Canal]  Fulton,  on  the  canal,  nine  miles  distant,  there 
are  eighty-four  communicants;  in  Liverpool,  eighty-one;  in 
Randolph,  fifty;  in  Akron,  twenty  (not  including  the  English- 
speaking  portion,  which  is  considerable);  in  Wooster,  Ash- 
land[?]  and  Shelby  [Settlement],  the  communicants  amount 
to  one  hundred  and  nineteen.  All  the  places  are  attended 
[from  Chippewa]  by  Rev.  Mr.  Schorb,  to  whom  the  Bishop 
promised  an  assistant,  for  whose  support  ample  means  will  be 
furnished  at  the  glebe-house.  The  church  [at  Chippewa], 
though  yet  unfinished,  is  still  used  for  divine  service.  It  was 
filled  on  Corpus  Christi,  when  the  Bishop  and  the  reverend 
pastor  alternately  officiated;  the  former  preached  on  the  great 
mystery  of  tin-  divine  love  in  tin-  Adorable  Eucharist,  and 
after  having  praised  the  zeal  and  piety  of  this  line  little  flock, 


268  CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA. 

exhorted  all  to  perseverance  and  renewed  effort  to  obtain  all 
that  is  yet  wanting  for  the  instruction  of  the  youth  of  the  con- 
gregation   and    the  decency    and   dignity  of   the  worship  of 

God.     *     * 

CANTON,    ST.   JOHN'S. 

On  Thursday  afternoon  [June  u],  the  Bishop  reached 
Canton  in  company  with  Rev.  Mr.  Schorb.  He  there  wit- 
nessed and  heard,  with  inexpressible  pleasure,  the  good  done 
by  the  indefatigable  Rev.  Mr.  Juncker,  and  had  reason  to 
bless  the  Almighty's  goodness  that  a  constitution,  naturally 
delicate,  had  not  sunken  under  an  accumulation  of  arduous 
duties.  The  new  pews,  the  decent  altar,  the  handsome  ante- 
pendium,  speak  the  man  of  God,  prepared  for  every  good 
wTork.  He  had,  up  to  this  date,  eighteen  hundred  and  forty- 
three  communicants,  [of  these  there  were]  in  Canton,  five 
hundred  and  forty-eight;  Massillon,  seventy-four;  Bethle- 
hem [Navarre],  seventy-five;  Norwalk  [Peru],  three  hundred; 
Tiffin  and  German  Settlement  [New  Riegel],  five  hundred  ; 
Sandusky  City,  twenty-four;  Thompson's  Settlement  [Thomp- 
son], eighty-five;  Cleveland,  twenty-four. 

These  are  not  all  the  Easter  communicants  in  the  several 
places  named,  but  all  that  Rev.  Mr.  Juncker  was  enabled  to 
instruct  and  otherwise  prepare  for  the  reception  of  the  holy 
sacraments.  He  was  assisted  by  his  Reverend  and  worthy 
confrere,  Mr.  Wuertz,  in  Bethlehem,  Norwalk,  Tiffin,  and  the 
adjacent  stations. 

Extracts  from  letter  of  Bishop  Purcell,  published  in  the  Catholic  Telegraph,  July 

18,   1840. 

East  Liverpool,  June  25,  1840. 

The  town  of  East  Liverpool,  Columbiana  county,  which 
was  laid  out  nearly  thirty  years  ago,  but  which  began  to  be 
improved  only  a  few  years  past,  is  one  of  the  healthiest  and 
most  agreeably  situated  on  the  Ohio  river.  Mr. 

James  Blakely  [of  East  Liverpool,  and  a  convert]  with  a 
liberality  which  we  have  pleasure  in  recording,  and  which  we 
trust  will  find   many  imitators   in   the  congregations  of   the 


CA  THOL IC  M ISC  EL  LA  NEA .  269 

diocese,  gave  four  hundred  dollars  [for  the  church  just  built], 
and  in  connection  with  four  other  gentlemen,  viz.:  Messrs. 
Mitchell,  Mausley,  Cooke  and  Smith,  presented  three  town 
lots  for  the  sacred  building.  The  first  two  of  these  four  gen- 
tlemen have  also  paid  $100  each  towards  the  erection  of  the 
church.  Mr.  John  Blakely,  a  convert  like  his  brother  men- 
tioned above,  has  offered  one  hundred  dollars.  Mr.  Kerrins, 
architect  of  St.  Paul's  church.  Pittsburgh,  who  resides  here, 
has  also  given  a  hundred  dollars  for  a  new  altar;  and  his  wife, 
who  is  a  convert,  has  done  and  contributed  much,  in  company 
with  the  family  of  another  estimable  convert,  Mr.  Bayley, 
together  with  Mrs.  Blakely,  and  others,  to  decorate  the 
sanctuary,  if  not  to  build  up  the  very  walls  of  our  little  Sion. 
Mr.  John  J.  Murphy  has  also  been  a  liberal  benefactor,  and 
incurred  responsibilities  towards  forwarding  the  good  work. 
Messrs.  Buchheit  and  Diettrich,  German  Catholics,  the  former 
being  the  first  Catholic  who  settled  here,  largely  participated 
in  the  merit  of  the  forementioned.  Many  other  names  might 
be  added,  but  they  do  not  occur  to  us  at  present.  The 
pious  pastor,  Rev.  Mr.  [James]  Conlan,  lodges  at  the  hospit- 
able resilience  of  Mr.  Fortune.  *  *  And  it  is  not  for 
ostentation,  or  any  intention  of  flattering  a  fondness  for  even 
amiable  fame,  which  is  very  far,  we  believe,  from  the  minds 
of  all  those  who  have  engaged  in  this  pious  undertaking,  that 
we  have  written  the  foregoing,  but  only  to  do  as  we  see  clone 
in  other  places  where  lists  of  the  benevolent  are  kept  and 
occasionally  published,  for  the  double  purpose  of  acknowl- 
edgment and  emulation  in  well  doing. 

The  church  is  of  brick,  substantially  built,  with  stone 
foundation,  and  water  course's,  70x40  ft.  in  dimensions,  and 
has  already  cost  three  thousand  dollars.  The  resources  of 
tin-  committee,  and  indeed  of  the  congregation,  are  nearly 
exhausted,  and  though  the  Bishop  has  come  to  their  assist- 
ance  as  generously  as  his  means  and  the  numberless  demands 
made  on  him  will  allow,  they  are  compelled  by  the  hard  times 
to  leave  the  work  unfinished  for  the  present. 


2 70  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

PASTORAL    APPOINTMENTS. 


Catholic  Telegraph,  October  10,  1840. 

Rev.  Peter  McLaughlin  has  been  appointed  pastor  of  the 
congregation  of  "Our  Lady  of  the  Lake,"  Cleveland,  and  of 
the  various  stations  hitherto  attended  by  Rev.  Mr.  O'Dwyer 
in  Cuyahoga  and  the  adjoining  counties. 

Rev.  Mr.  Louis  de  Goesbriand  succeeds  Rev.  Mr.  Wuertz 
(removed  to  Canton  in  the  absence  of  Rev.  Mr.  Juncker,  who 
has  obtained  leave  from  the  Bishop  to  make  a  short  visit  to 
Europe,)  as  pastor  of  St.  Louis'  Church  [Louisville],  in  Stark 
county. 

EPISCOPAL  VISITATION.— NORTHERN  OHIO. 


Bishop  Purcellto  Catholic  Telegraph,  December  12,  1S40. 
McCUTCHENVILLE. 

The  church  of  McCutchenville  might  have  been  dedicated, 
as  the  Bishop  and  Very  Rev.  Mr.  Henni,  on  their  way  from 
Marion  to  Crawfordsville  had  to  pass  by  Tymochtee,  which 
is  only  a  few  miles  from  it,  but  they  were  not  aware,  when 
they  heard  that  the  church  was  handsomely  finished,  that 
they  should  have  to  approach  so  near  to  that  part  of  Seneca 
[Wyandot]  county  during  the  visitation.  This  duty  devolves 
on  the  reverend  pastors  of  Tiffin  according  to  the  request 
made  by  the  Bishop  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Machebeuf. 

FINDLAY. 
In  Fort  Findlay,  Hancock  county,  they  [Bishop  Purcell 
and  Father  Henni,]  were  agreeably  surprised  to  find  more 
Catholics  than  they  believed  to  reside  there.  Church  was 
held  at  Mr.  Engelmann's,  a  friendly  Protestant,  married  to  a 
Catholic  lady  from  near  Emmittsburg,  and  some  children 
were   baptized.      [Mr.    E.    later  became  a  convert. — H.] 


CA  THOLIC  M ISC  EL  LANE  A .  271 

GLANDORF. 

With  much  difficulty  we  [Bishop  Purcell  and.  Very  Rev. 
Father  Henni]  procured  a  wagon  at  Findlay  to  transport  us 
some  thirty  miles  over  a  very  bad  road,  to  Ottawa.  We 
were  benighted  before  we  reached  the  village,  but  as  the  rain, 
which  had  fallen  during-  the  day  in  torrents,  had  fortunately 
ceased,  we  procured  a  guide  and  lantern  and  ventured  to  ford 
the  Blanchard  river  on  horseback,  that  we  may  [?]  reach  Glan- 
dorf,  the  settlement  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Horstmann,  before 
Sunday  morning.  We  accomplished  this  task  in  little  more 
than  an  hour,  and  were  cordially  welcomed  by  this  learned 
professor,  devoted  pastor  and  fervent  solitary.  Rev.  Mr. 
Horstmann  is  a  native  of  Prussia.  He  purchased  a  section  of 
land  in  this  part  of  Ohio  [Putnam  county],  in  1834.  A  few  of 
his  compatriots  followed  him,  and  a  Catholic  settlement  was 
commenced.  Its  increase  may  be  estimated  by  the  following 
data:  In  [835  there  were  2  baptisms;  in  1836,  20;  in  1837, 
23;  in  1838,  29;  in  1839  only  28,  and  in  1840,  to  the  30th  of 
October,  t,^.  There  were  this  year  590  communicants,  122 
families,  36  confirmed,  and  5  deaths  in  the  settlement. 

The  church,  in  point  of  material  and  style,  is  well  suited 
to  the  forest  scene  around.  The  pulpit,  from  which  the  spir- 
itual Zaccheus  not  only  sees  Christ  in  his  law,  but  also  shows 
him  to  a  faithful  people,  is  formed  from  the  hollow  trunk  of  a 
sycamore.  The  dome  of  the  sacred  edifice,  now  canopied 
only  by  the  firmament,  consists,  in  summer  at  least,  of  the 
arched  branches,  grapevine,  and,  for  aught  we  know  to  the 
contrary,  the  ante-deluvian  oak. 

Near  the  church,  and  similarly  constructed,  stands  the 
school  house.  The  priest  was  for  eighteen  months  the  school 
master,  and  it  is  worthy  of  record  that  the  common  school 
fund  furnished  a  fair  contingent  of  his  salary.  We  are  happy 
to  say  that  this  is  not  the  only  instance  of  such  rare  justice  to 
the  Catholic  population  of  Ohio.  In  Minster  and  Wapako- 
neta  we  shall  have  occasion  to  notice  the  same  honesty  and 
fairness,  in  giving  our  people  a  portion  of  the  education 
money.         ::'         ;:' 


2j2  CA  TH0L1C  MISCELLANEA , 

From  Ottawa  [Glandorf  ?]  we  started  for  the  Catholic  sta- 
tion at  Fort  Jennings,  but  the  state  of  the  creeks  did  not 
admit  of  our  going  farther  in  that  direction  than  Kalida,  and 
during  this  short  journey  we  had  to  roll  away  the  fallen  tim- 
ber and  make  frequent  use  of  the  axe  to  cut  down  saplings 
that  interrupted  our  path. 

Our  next  resting  place  was  Lima,  in  Allen  county.  Here 
we  could  not  learn  that  there  were  any  Catholics.       *       * 


Catholic   Telegraph,  fitly  10,    1841. 

[EAST]  LIVERPOOL,  OHIO. 

To  the  Catholic  Congregations  of  Ohio: 

With  the  previously  obtained  consent  of  the  venerable 
Bishop  of  the  diocese,  the  undersigned  were  appointed  to 
address  you,  our  fellow  Catholics,  in  relation  to  the  difficulties 
and  embarrassments  of  the  Catholic  congregation  of  this 
place,  and  to  appeal  to  your  liberality  and  generosity  to  assist 
us,  in  order  to  enable  us  to  remove  the  same. 

Our  church  was  commenced  in  the  spring  of  1837,  under 
the  most  favorable  auspices;  being  encouraged  by  the  prom- 
ising state  of  the  times,  and  the  prospect  of  a  considerable 
increase  of  our  numbers,  from  a  public  work  then  under  con- 
tract, we  were  induced  to  lay  out  our  church  on  a  larger  scale 
than  would  have  been  advisable  had  such  a  change  been  con- 
templated as  took  place  shortly  after  that  period.  The  build- 
ing having  progressed,  however,  to  that  extent  that  rendered 
any  alteration  impossible,  we  had  no  alternative  left  but 
to  abandon  the  work  entirely  and  lose  what  had  already 
been  expended,  or  make  another  effort  to  finish  the  build- 
ing on  the  plan  already  begun.  The  latter  course  was 
determined  on,  and  by  the  most  extraordinary  exertions, 
considering  our  numbers,  we  have  succeeded  in  raising  a 
beautiful  and  substantial  edifice  (40x70  feet,  of  brick),  one 
that  will  be  an  ornament  to  our  town  and  a  credit  to  our 
faith.     It   is   in   an   unfinished  state,   it  is    true,    but    notwith- 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  2 73 

standing,  it  will  and  does  answer  for  public  worship,  until  a 
change  in  the  times  will  enable  us  to  complete  it.  To  effect 
what  has  been  done  we  have  expended  $3,000,  and  unfortu- 
nately we  have  a  debt  of  $1,000,  for  the  payment  of  which 
the  hammer  of  the  sheriff  is  now  battering  at  the  door.  It  is 
to  prevent  so  deplorable  a  consequence  that  this  appeal  is 
made.  Was  it  for  the  purpose  of  building,  or  raking  means 
to  build  a  church  (aware  as  we  are  that  most  if  not  all  the 
congregations  of  this  diocese  have  their  own  difficulties  to 
contend  with),  we  could  not  expect,  nor  would  we  ask  at  your 
hands,  your  assistance;  the  matter  would  be  local  in  its 
nature,  and  if  our  circumstances  would  not  permit  us  to  enter 
into  it,  we  would  wait  till  they  were  so.  But  now  the  case  is 
different;  it  is  not  to  build  a  church,  but  to  save  one,  which  is 
already  under  roof;  and  these  circumstances  render  its  char- 
acter a  general  one,  affecting-  every  Catholic  in  the  diocese, 
and  in  which  all  must  feel  a  deep  interest.  A  church,  on 
which  has  been  expended  upwards  of  $3,000,  is  about  to  be 
sacrificed  for  a  small  remaining  debt.  This  of  itself  should 
be  an  important  consideration.  But  still  this  would  be  noth- 
ing when  compared  with  the  disgrace  which  must  be  conse- 
quent on  such  an  event,  a  consequence  which  we  confidently 
feel  you  will  readily  assist  us  to  avert.  A  small  pittance 
from  each  individual  who  will  be  called  on  would  raise  the 
Mini  required.  We  do  hope  our  appeal  will  not  be  in  vain. 
We  know  that  it  will  not.  We  feel  that  an  appeal  made  to 
us  under  similar  circumstances  would  cause  us  to  contribute  a 
portion  which,  if  equally  contributed  through  the  dioce 
would  much  more  than  raise  the  amount  required  in  this  case. 
Tin-  different  congregations  of  the  diocese  will  be  waited 
on  by  our  pastor,  Rev.  James  Conlan  [attending  E.  I.,  from 
Steubenville,]  in  a  few  weeks.  We  hope  none  will  send  him 
away  without  contributing  something. 

Ji  'ii\  J.  Murphy, 

J(  >S]  \ll    1;  \<.l  IV, 

J(  mix  S.  Blakely. 


2  74  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

EPISCOPAL  VISITATION.— NORTHERN  OHIO. 


Bishop  Puree  11  to  Catholic  Telegraph,  July  17,  1841. 

PERU;  ST.  PETER'S,  NORWALK,  ETC. 

A  clergyman  [Rev.  Joseph  Freygang]  from 
another  diocese  [Detroit],  who  had  been  recently  admitted, 
with    much   difficult)',    into   Ohio  had  placed  him- 

self at  the  head  of  a  party  [which  under  his  direction  left 
Peru  and  organized  St.  Peter's,  Norwalk,  contrary  to  the 
Bishop's  positive  prohibition]  and  thus  proved  the  occasion 
of  much  disturbance  of  the  peace  and  edification,  for  which 
this  congregation  [St.  Alphonsus',  Peru,]  had,  with  very  few 
exceptions,   been    at    all    times    remarkable.  The 

Bishop  experienced  great  satisfaction  at  meeting  here  the 
former  pastor  [Rev.  F.  X.  Tschenhens],  who  had  returned 
[from  Pittsburgh]  to  resume  the  care  of  his  beloved  flock. 
This  zealous  priest  had  been  diligently  employed  for  several 
days  in  preparing  the  candidates  for  confirmation,  of  whom 
about  twenty-five  or  thirty  received  that  sacrament  [June  20]. 
The  Bishop  preached  at  High  Mass  on  the  necessity  of  obedi- 
ence to  the  spiritual  authority  which  Christ  has  established  in 
His  church  for  the  maintenance  of  good  government,  happi- 
ness and  order,  and  the  prevention  of  the  guilt  and  wretched- 
ness inseparable  from  schism.  The  church  was 
crowded  with  a  Catholic  audience,  most  of  whom  were  effected 
even  to  tears,  and  all  united  in  addressing  the  most  fervent 
prayers  to  heaven  for  the  restoration  of  the  alienated  affec- 
tions of  those  who  had  hitherto  been  of  one  mind  with  them 
in  exhibiting  the  good  and  pleasant  scene  of  brethren  dwell- 
ing together  in  unity.  "  After  High  Mass  the 
Bishop  preached  in  a  little  grove,  near  the  church,  on  the 
sacrament  of  penance;  and  the  following  evening,  at  the 
request  of  the  sheriff  and  a  large  number  of  the  principal  citi- 
zens of  Norwalk,  he  preached  in  the  court  house.  On  Tuesday 
evening  [June  22,]  the  Bishop  preached  in  the  school  house 
at  New  Haven,  twelve  miles  from  Norwalk,  and  on  the  next 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  275 

day  held  "station"  at  the  house  of  Mr.  James  Patton,  where 
there  were  some  communicants,  and  three  persons  were  con- 
firmed.    We  thence  proceeded  to 

THE    CHURCH    OF    THE    SACRED    HEART    [SHELBY 
SETTLEMENT]. 

In  this  church,  attended  by  about  100  families  of  German 
and  Irish  Catholics,  we  were  kept  pretty  constantly  busy 
in  giving  instructions  and  administering  the  sacraments. 
On  the  evening  of  the  second  day,  the  Bishop  preached  by 
request  in  the  Methodist  meeting-house  at  Shelby,  four  miles 
from  the  church.  After  the  sermon  the  Bishop,  accompanied 
by  Rev.  Mr.  Tschenhens,  left  Shelby  for  Bucyrus,  14  miles 
distant  [June  24th].  Very  Rev.  Mr.  Henni,  who  had  arrived 
at  Norwalk  from  Columbus,  where  he  had  officiated  the  pre- 
ceding Sunday,  returned  [from  Shelby  Settlement]  to  Nor- 
walk, with  the  intention  of  reaching  Tiffin  for  the  next  Sun- 
day. There  are  but  two  or  three  Catholic  families  in  Bucyrus, 
although  there  are  many  at  various  distances  in  the  country 
around.  These  we  could  not  visit,  and  therefore  we  took  a 
stage  to  Scipio,  or  Republic,  a  new  and  for  the  present  thriv- 
ing village,  bein^  the  termination  of  the  finished  portion  of 
the  Mad  River  and  Lake  Erie  railroad,  commencing  at  San- 
dusky City,  26  miles  distant.  This  distance  is  traveled  in  the 
cars,   propelled   by   a  locomotive  at  the  rate  of  about  12  miles 

an  hour. 

TIFFIN,   ST.    MARY'S. 

The  church    at   Tiffin,  which  was  visited   on    Sunday, June 

27th.   is  so   small   that    not    mere   than    one-third   part   of   the 

Congregation  can  find  place  in  it.  The   neatness 

of  tin-  church  and   tin-  piety  of  the  congregation   never  fail. 

*  *  Rev.  .Mr.  McXamee,  ordained   at   Cincinnati,  has 

charge  of  this  interesting  flock.     He  is,  through  the  mere)  ol 

God,  another  happy  instance  of  the  devotedness  and  success 

with  which  the  alumni  of  the  diocese  commence  to  labor  in 

sowing  in  tears  and  garnering  in   joy  the  spiritual    harvest. 

i;  tsides  Tiffin,  the  congregations  of  Mc<  lutchenville  [ceased  to 

exist  since   [870]  and   the   German    Settlement    in    Big   Spring 


2  76  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

township  [New  Riegel],  Attica   [St.  Stephen's],  Maumee,   Per- 
rysburg  [?],  Toledo,  Defiance,  etc.,        *  are  attended 

from  Tiffin  and  Norwalk. 

MCCUTCHENVILLE,    WYANDOT    COUNTY. 

The  church  of  McCutchenville,  a  neat,  frame  edifice,  want- 
ing but  a  fraction  of  the  dimensions  of  the  church  at  Tiffin, 
was  dedicated  to  God  [June  26],  under  the  title  of  The  Visi- 
tation. In  few  places  of  this,  or,  as  it  is  believed,  of  any  other 
diocese,  has  more  been  done  by  a  few  families  than  has  been 
accomplished  [here]  towards  the  building  and  decoration  of  a 

church. 

NEW    RIEGEL,    SENECA   COUNTY. 

The  church  of  the  German  Settlement  [then  called  Wolfs 
Creek,  now  New  Riegel,]  six  miles  from  McCutchenville,  is 
called  St.  Boniface.  It  is  frequented  by  120  families,  chiefly 
Germans — all  whose  children,  planted  like  young  olives  on 
each  side  of  an  avenue  of  trees  leading  to  the  church,  received 
on  their  knees  the  blessing  of  the  Bishop  as  he  approached 
the  church.  Very  Rev.  Mr.  Henni  consoled  the  congregation 
by  one  of  his  eloquent  and  fervent  sermons,  after  which  16 
persons  were  confirmed.  The  Easter  communicants  in  all  the 
Tiffin  range  this  year  were  662;  baptisms  from  1st  of  July, 
1840  to  1st  of  July,  1841,  310;  confirmed  at  Tiffin,  65;  mar- 
riages, 11;   interments,  25. 

SANDUSKY. 

Rev.  Mr.  Machebeuf  is  stationed  at  Sandusky,  on  the  lake, 
county  seat  of  the  new  county  of  Erie.  Church  is  held  in  a 
large  hall  kindly  loaned  for  this  purpose  by  the  proprietor, 
Judge  Mills,  an  old  and  tried  friend  of  Catholics,  though  not 
himself  a  Catholic.  Five  years  ago  this  benevolent  man 
offered  the  Bishop  three  lots  and  a  handsome  subscription 
towards  a  church.  The  want  of  a  priest,  which,  thank  God, 
no  longer  exists,  only  debarred  the  acceptance  of  this  liberal 
offer  and  the  execution  of  the  long  cherished  prospect.  In 
this  city  and  immediate  vicinity  there  have  been  110  commu- 
nicants,   this    Easter;   20    baptisms  since   1st  of  January,    20 


CA THOLIC  MISCELLANEA.  2 7 7 

confirmed,  3  marriages,  3  first  communions.  After  preaching 
in  meeting  rooms  and  in  the  court  house,  on  Tuesday  in  the 
afternoon  [June  29,]  the  Bishop,  attended  by  the  Very  Rev. 
Mr.  Henni  and  Rev.  Mr.  Machebeuf,  held  a  meeting  of  the  con- 
gregation, at  which  he  stated  that  besides  the  three  lots,  the 
sum  of  $530  in  cash  was  offered  by  the  family  of  Mr.  Mills. 
The  subscriptions  of  the  congregation,  very  many  of  whom 
have  not  yet  been  called  upon,  raised  this  amount  to  upwards 
of  $1,600.  An  estimate  hastily  drawn  up  by  Mr.  Robert 
Cassidy,-' stone  mason,  showed  that  the  walls  of  a  church, 
60x46,  with  basement  of  8  ft.,  and  height  from  principal  floor, 
of  due  proportions,  would  require  730  perch  of  stone.  The 
work  can  be  done  here  with  certainty,  for  $1.50  per  perch,  all 
material,  &c,  furnished.  A  building  committee  to  aid  the 
pastor,  who  must  frequently  be  absent  from  home,  was  ap- 
pointed by  the  Bishop,  and  all  other  preliminary  arrange- 
ments made,  so  that  the  foundations  could  be  blessed  and 
cornerstone  placed  with  one  solemnity.  The  zeal,  prudence 
and  piety  of  the  pastor,  and  the  excellent  spirit  of  the  flock 
lead  us  to  hope  with  confidence  that  their  new  church  will  be 
covered  in  before  bad  weather.  The  church  will  be  styled 
"Holy  Angels." 


KPISCOPAL  VISITATION.— NORTHERN  OHIO. 


Bishop  Purcell to  Catholic  Telegraph,  luly  31,  1S41. 

SANDUSKY;  FREMONT;  MAUMEE,  AC. 

Before    leaving   Sandusky  the  Bishop  established  there  a 
Total   Abstinence   Society.  It  was  at  the  earnest 

request  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Machebeuf,  their  devoted  pastor 
that  this  effort  was  made,  and  the  success  was  such  as  to 
leave  a  strong  -round  lor  hope  that  tin-  example  of  Cleveland 

will  be  here  followed.         *        * 

(  >ur  way  [from  Sandusky  City]  to  Lower  Sandusky 
[Fremont]    lay    through   tin-   woods   profusely  adorned  with 


278  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

beautiful  wild  roses,  interspersed  with  rich  clusters  of  the 
orange  lily.  We  missed  the  road,  but  arrived  in  good  time 
at  our  destination.  Here,  as  in  Sandusky  City,  church  is 
kept  in  a  large  room,  originally  built  for  a  store;  but  a  com- 
mencement has  been  made  towards  the  erection  of  a  church 
on  an  eligible  lot  presented  for  this  purpose  by  Charles  Brush, 
Esq.,  of  Columbus;  and  an  old  and  faithful  friend  of  the 
Catholic  congregation,  Rudolph  Dickinson,  Esq.,  at  whose 
hospitable  residence  the  clergy  have  always  found  a  welcome, 
has,  besides  other  help,  offered  all  the  brick  that  may  be 
required  for  the  building,  The  Bishop  and  Rev.  Mr.  Henni 
preached  here  several  times,  the  former  in  the  court  house, 
where  he  always  finds  a  large  and  courteous  auditory.  In 
this  little  congregation,  which  has  greatly  improved  since  it 
has  received  more  pastoral  care  than  it  was  possible  to  bestow 
on  it  while  there  was  only  one  priest  for  this  and  the  Tiffin 
missions,  21  were  confirmed;  and  there  have  been  since  first 
January,  of  this  year,  19  baptisms,  102  Easter  communions, 
16  first  communions,  3  marriages  and  2  interments.       *      * 

At  the  French  settlement  [La  Prairie],  9  miles  from  Lower 
Sandusky,  there  was  a  neat  little  rural  chapel  dedicated  to 
St.  Philomena.  We  could  not  help  thinking  of  the  early 
missionaries,  as  we  approached  this  sequestered  spot  in  a 
boat,  and  again  darted  by  it  at  our  departure,  stretched  in  a 
light  canoe.  There  is  another  French  settlement  [Toussaint] 
on  the  Toussaint  river,  16  miles  from  Lower  Sandusky,  which 
we  had  not  time  to  visit.  Besides  these  there  are  several 
other  stations,  such  as  Marblehead,  Port  Clinton,  &c,  which 
receive  as  much  pastoral  care  as  the  extent  of  the  mission 
will  allow.     *     * 

MAUMEE. 

From  Lower  Sandusky  to  Perrysburg,  united  by  a  bridge 
there  over  the  Maumee  river,  below  Fort  Meigs  to  Maumee 
City,  the  road  lies  through  the  Black  Swamp,  31  miles  in 
length.  The  road  is  one  of  the  best  McAdamized  in  the 
Union.  There  were  fewer  signs  of  temporal  pros- 

perity  around   Perrysburg  [Maumee]   since   we  visited  there 


CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA.  279 

four  years  ago  than  we  had  anticipated.  It  is,  however,  too  soon 
yet  to  see  the  beneficial  results  of  the  great  public  works,  canals, 
railroads  and  turnpikes  that  terminate  or  intersect  here.     *     * 

The  members  of  the  congregation  [at  Maumee]  had,  as  is 
everywhere  the  case,  greatly  increased;  and  one  of  the  hand- 
somest churches  in  the  state,  owing  to  the  zeal  of  Rev.  Mr. 
McNamec,  the  proverbial  generosity  of  the  Irish  Catholics  on 
the  public  works,  and  the  kindness  of  a  few  citizens  of  other 
denominations,  belongs  to  them.  It  was  built  in  part  for  the 
Episcopalians,  who  for  some  reason  or  other,  have  never  occu- 
pied it.  This  church  is  frame,  65x35  feet,  of  proportionate 
height,  surmounted  by  tower  and  steeple.  It  will  be 

dedicated  to  God,  under  the  patronage  of  St.  Joseph.  We 
remained  here  four  days,  and  though  we  are  three  in  number, 
viz.:  Rev.  Messrs.  Machebeuf,  McNamee  and  the  Bishop,  we 
were  constantly  employed.  We  had  preaching  three  or  four 
times  a  day.  On  Sunday  there  was  no  service  in  cany  of  the 
other  churches,  many  of  whose  people  came  to  ours,  as  they 
did  during  the  week,  and  several  among  them  heard  with 
astonishment  what  undeniable  testimony  the  Scripture  exhib- 
its to  sustain  those  peculiar  tenets  of  our  Holy  Faith,  with 
which  the  prejudices  of  their  education  had  hitherto  taught 
them  to  consider  utterly  incompatible. 

The  Methodist  clergyman  in  charge  invited  the  Bishop  to 
preach  a  temperance  address  in  his  church,  but  he  politely 
declined,  remarking  that  the  Catholic  church  was  large 
enough,  he  thought,  for  any  audience  that  could  be  collected, 
'and  he  preferred  to  see  Catholics  frequent  no  church  but  their 
own,  on  any  occasion.  Indeed,  he  had  stated,  in  detail,  the 
previous  Sunday,  many  peremptory  reasons  why,  on  the  sub- 
ject of  temperance,  as  well  as  any  others.  Catholics  should 
to  hear  no  preacher  who  could  not  offer  them  a  sufficient 
guarantee  tli.it  he  was  not  likely  to  rush  into  the  wildest 
extremes  of  fanaticism  and  error.       The  church  was  thronged 

at   the  temperance  address. 

There  were  twenty-five  confirmed.       Three  or  four  priest-, 
would    have  more   than  enough    to  do   in  this   part  of   the  dio- 

A.nd  yet  the  harvesl  is  rotting  for  want  of  laborers! 


28o  CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA. 

EPISCOPAL  VISITATION. 


Bishop  Piuxell  to  Catholic  Telegraph,  December  II,  1841. 
CANTON — ST.  JOHN'S. 

"::"  We  reached  Canton  at  sundown,  on  Saturday,  6th 
November.  Rarely  have  we  been  more  consoled  than  we 
were  at  this  visitation,  seeing  and  hearing  of  the  peace  which 
reigns  throughout  this  congregation,  and  of  the  assiduity  of 
its  members  in  approaching  the  holy  sacraments,  under  the 
pastoral  care  of  Rev.  Matthias  Wuerz.  One  hundred  and 
twenty  were  confirmed,  and  the  faithful,  after  sermons  in 
English  and  German  [in  the  latter  language  by  Very  Rev.  Fr. 
Henni,  who  accompanied  Bishop  Purcell  on  his  visitation],  were 
exhorted  to  build  at  least  one  church  more  for  the  use  of  the 
German  Catholics,  the  present  being  a  great  deal  too  small 
for  either  portion  of  the  congregation. 

LOUISVILLE. 

The  following  Thursday,  one  hundred  and  forty 
persons  received  the  same  sacrament  [confirmation]  at  St. 
Louis'  Church,  Louisville,  Stark  county,  where  Rev.  Mr.  de 
Goesbriand  is  stationed  among  a  flock  composed  chiefly  of 
French  emigrants.  It  would  be  impossible,  we 

think,  to  witness  more  solemnity  and  decorum  than  we  here 
observed  in  the  reception  of  the  sacraments,  or  in  the  assist- 
ance at  the  Divine  Sacrifice.       *       * 

RANDOLPH. 

On  Friday  morning  we  attended  at  St.  Martin's  [St.  Jos- 
eph's], near  Randolph  [Centre],  where  a  beautiful  frame  church 
was  consumed  [?]  three  years  ago,  withits  furniture,  by  some 
base  incendiary,  whom  the  spirit  of  the  first  schismatic  is 
suspected,  we  fear  but  too  truly,  to  have  instigated  to  the 
sacrilegious  deed.  Very  Rev.  Mr.  Henni  preached  a  most 
affecting  sermon  on  the  occasion,  and  all  the  congregation, 
with  only  one  or  at  most  two  exceptions,  knelt  down  with 
abundance  of  tears  to  ask  pardon  from   God  and  the  grace  of 


CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA.  281 

repentance  for  the  perpetrators  of  so  deadly  a  crime.  From 
this  place  Rev.  Mr.  Henni  went  to  Hanover,  Columbiana  county, 
at  the  request  of  the  German  [?]  congregation  of  St.  Paul's  [then 

near  Dungannon.] 

AKRON. 

"  "::"  The  Bishop  proceeded  [alone]  to  Akron,  where  he 
said  Mass  in  the  house  of  a  German,  Mr.  Meyer,  and  with 
some  Irish  Catholics  and  other  friends  endeavored  to  provide 
for  the  erection  of  a  church  for  the  Catholics  of  this  rapidly 
growing  town,  and  Cuyahoga  Falls,  three  miles  north. 

CHIPPEWA    [DOYLESTOWN]. 

*  We  were  at  St.  Francis  Xavier's  Church  (Rev.  Mr. 
Schorb's)  on  the  following  Sunday  [November  14th].  The 
church  was  then  dedicated  and  thirty-eight  persons  were  con- 
firmed. We  know  not  if  a  larger  assembly  was  ever  before 
congregated  in  so  small  a  spa<  The  building  should  have 
been  three  or  four  times  as  large  to  afford  room  for  all  who 
crowded  to  the  ceremony,  and  yet  the  most  perfect  order  was 
observed  during  the  holy  sacrifice  and  the  instruction. 


*      * 


WOOSTER. 

(  )n  Tuesday  evening  [Nov.  16],  the  Bishop  preached  to  a 
crowded  audience  in  the  court  house  at  Wooster,  standing  as 
it  were,  according  to  his  own  observation,  on  the  grave  of  his 
venerated  predecessor,  whose  heroic  sacrifices  and  sublime 
devotion  in  the  work  of  an  apostle  would,  he  hoped,  obtain 
more  than  human  efficacy  for  his  feeble  words.  Next  morn- 
ing, after  church  at  Mr.  Christian  Juncker's,  he  preached, 
again  by  request;  in  the-  court  house,  on  the  Catholic  doctrine 
of  rransubstantiation.  We  noticed  four  preachers  of  different 
sects  taking  notes  of  his  sermon. 

We  heard  with  exceeding  regret  of  several  in  this  neigh- 
borhood who  had  joined  "other  religions,"  because  there  was 
none  of  their  own  to  go  I  It  is  confidently  hoped 

that  with  the  generously  promised  aid  of  a  few  Catholics  we 
shall  soon  have  a  church  in  Wooster,  where  nearly  all  the 
sects  have  anticipated  us  in  the  erection  of  "meeting  houses." 


282  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

After  arrangements  to  this  effect  the  Bishop  left  in  a  little 
carriage,  placed,  for  a  week,  at  his  disposal  by  its  proprietor, 
Mr.  John  Carroll,  a  sound-hearted  Irish  Catholic,  and  arrived 
same  day  at  Mt.  Eaton.       *       ":f 

CANAL  FULTON  ;     CANTON  ;    MASSILLON  ;    NAVARRE. 

Next  morning  [Nov.  19]  we  reached  the  church 
near  Fulton  [between  Canal  Fulton  and  Lawrence]  before 
the  congregation  was  assembled.      Here  the  Bishop  preached. 

At  early  candle-light,  same  evening,  the  Bishop 
preached  in  the  Methodist  meeting-house  at  [Canal]  Fulton, 
and  again,  in  the  same  place,  the  following  day,  after  Mass,  at 
which  there  were  many  communicants — at  Mr.  Jesse  Patton's. 
In  the  evening  [November  21]  he  preached  to  a  very  crowded 
assembly  in  the  court-house  at  Canton,  and  proceeded  same 
night  to  Massillon,  where  he  held  service  at  Mr.  Finnegan's, 
and  preached  in  a  large  public  hall  to  a  respectable  and  very 
attentive  audience.  There  should  be  a  church  in  this  place, 
and  we  trust  there  soon  will  be  one  worthy  of  our  faith  and 
of  the  prosperity  of  this  very  thriving  town.        *       * 

The  church  of  St.  Clement  at  Bethlehem   [Navarre]  was 
our  next  point  of  labor  and   rest.  We  shall  not 

exhaust  the  patience  of  our  readers,  already,  perhaps,  too 
heavily  taxed,  by  this  lengthy  communication,  by  giving 
utterance  to  the  numerous  reflections  on  the  rapid  growth, 
the  present  urgent  necessities  and  future  prospects  of  the 
Church  in  this  diocese,  which  the  present  visitation  has  sug- 
gested. One  thing  is  certain,  it  would  require  the  constant 
attention  of  two  bishops  and  a  hundred  priests,  as  humble, 
disinterested,  patient,  healthy,  prudent,  painstaking,  pious 
and  learned  as  men  can  be  in  this  world  of  trial,  to  preserve 
the  faithful,  convert  the  erring,  reclaim  the  sinful,  found 
schools  and  build  churches  necessary  over  such  an  extensive 
spiritual  territory.  From  the  depths  of  our  own  sense  of  our 
insufficiency  for  the  arduous  task,  we  can  only  implore  the 
Almighty  God  to  send  laborers  into  His  vineyard! 


CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA.  283 

Catholic    Telegraph,    February  26,    1842. 
REV.    MR.    RAPPE. 

This  devoted  brother  and  fellow-laborer  sends  us  [Bishop 
Purcell]  edifying  tidings  from  the  north-west  of  the  diocese, 
under  the  head  of  "Toledo,  14th  February."  He  writes  as 
follows:  "I  have  just  returned  from  the  state  line  where  I 
found  much  work  and  great  consolation.  I  commence,  it 
seems  to  mc,  to  be  a  missionary.  I  like  exceedingly  the 
poverty,  the  simplicity  and  the  faith  of  our  Irish  Catholics. 
Poor  men!  Many  of  them  have  not  been  to  confession  for  a 
long  while,  and  now  above  all,  those  who  have  joined  the 
temperance  society  are  very  zealous  to  approach  this  sacra- 
ment and  the  Divine  Eucharist.  I  should  have  two  lives  to 
consecrate  to  such  men.  They  want  above  everything  instruc- 
tion in  their  moral  duties  and  the  sacraments.  But  what  con- 
soling faith!  Last  Sunday  I  celebrated  two  Masses  on  the 
reservoir  [in  Paulding  county],  where  there  are  about  600 
men,  and  in  the  afternoon  I  was  called  to  the  sick.  I  was 
followed  along  the  road  by  a  young  man  who  had  longed  for 
the  occasion  of  speaking  to  mc.  But  as  the  most  notable  of 
the  place  made  a  circle  around  me,  my  good  young  man  was 
prevented  by  humility  from  making  his  way  to  me.  But  on 
my  return  from  the  sick  he  stopped  me  as  I  was  about  jump- 
ing over  a  ditch,  and  modestly  said  to  me:  'Sir,  I  wish  to 
receive  the  Blessed  Sacrament.'  'Very  well,  my  friend,  I 
am  going  to  hear  confessions  to-morrow;  I  hope  you  will 
have  that  happiness.'  'But,'  he  replied,  'it  is  to-day  I  wish 
to  do  so.'  'My  friend,'  I  added,  'you  have  dined;  you  can 
not  communicate  now.'  'No,  sir,  I  have  neither  breakfasted 
nor  dined,  because  I  hoped  to  receive  my  Lord  to-day.' 
Blei  ied  are  the  poor  in  spirit  lor  surely  theirs  is  the  kingdom 
of  heaven. 

"I  wish  to  have  one  hundred  medals  and  two  hundred 
cards,  for  besides  the  two  hundred  persons  that  I  have 
received  into  the  temperance  society,  many  o\  tin-  others  had 
taken  the  pledge  in  other  states,  so  th.it  they  are  tin-  majority. 


2 84  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

Though  I  had  never  been  a  great  friend  of  the  temperance 
society,  I  could  not  refuse  to  take  the  pledge  myself  on  see- 
ing the  frightful  ravages  of  intemperance  among  our  poor 
people. 

"All  the  people  are  very  anxious  to  see  the  commencing 
of  the  foundation  of  our  new  church,  [in  Toledo]  but  I  answer 
them  that  I  wish  first  of  all  to  see  a  great  change  in  their 
morals;  in  a  word,  I  wish  to  put  all  the  whisky  bottles  and 
glasses  in  the  bottom  of  the  foundation.  Death  himself  has 
come  to  help  me  in  my  work,  for  eighteen  or  twenty  per- 
sons have  died,  Catholics  and  Protestants,  since  Christmas, 
the  most  part  of  intemperate  habits,  so  that  those  who  drank 
to  preserve  health  are  now  confounded.        * 

"My  prospects  for  building  a  church  are  encouraging. 
Fourteen  hundred  dollars  have  been  subscribed  in  Toledo, 
and  I  reckon  upon  four  hundred  more  from  the  public  works. 
Pray  that  I  may  have  light  and  grace  to  know  and  do  the 
will  of  God  in  all  things."  *  * 


Extracts  from  letter  sent  by  Rev.  P.  J.  Machebeuf  to  the  Catholic  Telegraph. 

Sandusky  City,  June  6,  1842. 
The  walls  of  our  new  church,  the  Holy  Angels', 
are  entirely  finished.  They  are  of  cut  stone.  The  most  part 
of  the  timber  for  the  roof  and  steeples  has  been  got  out,  and 
next  week  I  will  give  the  contract  for  framing  the  roof,  etc. 
While  I  am  writing,  masons  are  beginning  to  build  my  house, 
next  to  the  church,  of  the  stone  that  was  left.  It  will  also  be 
all  of  stone.  The  people  are  all  very  desirous  to  give  me  a 
few  days'  work,  or  materials.  Mr.  Miles  [a  Protestant],  who 
has  done  so  much  already,  has  been  so  kind  as  to  give  us  two 
acres,  not  far  from  the  church,  for  a  graveyard.  The 

great  majority  of  the  congregation,  and  even  the  pastor  him- 
self, though  a  Frenchman,  now  belong  to  the  army  of  teeto- 
talers; thanks  be  to  God  for  it.  I  was  not  at  first  a 
friend  of  total  abstinence,  but  seeing  that  the  prevailing  vice, 
as   well  as   obstacles  to   all  good   in    this   neighborhood,   was 


CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA.  285 

intemperance,  I  joined  the  society,  and   St.    Pat- 

rick's day  was  celebrated  with  great  solemnity.  The 

society  in  this  city  and  neighborhood  numbers  one  hundred 
and  sixty-two  members,  of  whom  I  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing 
one  hundred  and  fifty  make  their  Easter  duty. 

FREMONT. 
We  have  done  nothing  so  far  in  Lower  Sandusky  [Fre- 
mont], this  season,  towards  building  the  new  church.  If  the 
zeal  of  a  few  were  imitated  by  all,  the  church  would  soon  be 
raised,  and  the  debts  already  contracted  on  the  room,  tem- 
porarily used  for  the  purpose,  soon  liquidated. 


Catholic  Telegraphy  September  3,  1842. 
MASSILLON,    ST.    MARY'S. 

We  are  happy  to  announce  that  our  friends  at  Massillon 
*  have  commenced  the  good  work  of  erecting  a  church. 
The  corner-stone  was  placed  on  the  20th  ult.,  and  a  sermon  was 
preached  on  the  occasion  by  Rev.  Matthias  Wuertz,  pastor  of 
St.  John's,  Canton.  Rev.  Mr.  de  Goesbriand  assisted  at  the  edi- 
fying ceremony. 

• — »■ — • 

( 'atholic  Telegraph. 
TOLEDO,  DECEMBER,  1.S42. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Rappe  has  purchased  the  Presbyterian 
meeting  house  in  Toledo  [St.  Krancis  de  Sales'],  in  this  state. 
It  is  a  large'  building,  in  a  handsome  part  of  the  town,  and 
after  a  few  alterations,  will  be  used  as  a  ("atholic  church. 
Religion  has  nol  a  more  zealous  missionary  in  the  West  than 
the  reverend  gentlemen,  through  whose  exertions  the  congre- 
gations in  Toledo  and  other  towns  in  the  neighborhood    have 

been    I  M;. mi/.ed. 


DIOCES1     01     CINC1 NNATI. 
Catholu     Telegraph. 

December,    [842.      I  he    Catholic    Almanac    for    [843    has 
been  received  It  is  as  usual  full  of  interesting  statis- 


286  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

tics.  The  progressive  increase  in  the  diocese  of  Cin- 

cinnati will  be  gratifying  to  those  who  take  an  immediate 
interest  in  that  portion  of  the  vineyard  of  Christ.  This  dio- 
cese, which  comprises  the  state  of  Ohio,  was  created  in  the 
year  1822,  and  the  Rt.  Rev.  Edward  Fen  wick  appointed  its 
first  Bishop.  During  the  administration  of  the  venerable  pre- 
late several  churches  were  erected.  In  the  year  1833,  when 
the  present  Bishop  [Purcell]  was  consecrated,  the  number  of 
churches  in  Ohio  was  sixteen.  They  were  nearly  ail  frame  or 
log  buildings  and  very  small,  corresponding  with  the  poverty 
of  the  Catholic  population  then  scattered  throughout  the  state. 
The  number  of  priests  did  not  exceed  ten  or  twelve.  There 
are  now  (1842)  forty-five  churches  in  the  diocese,  some  of 
them  equal  to  any  in  the  United  States  for  solidity,  size  and 
beauty. 

• — -^n- — • 

CLEVELAND. 

Catholic  Telegraph,  Jan uarv  28,  1843. 

The  zealous  pastor  [Rev.  P.  McLaughlin]  of  this  city  and 
its  neighboring  missions,  is  laboring  successfully  in  the  good 
cause  of  Jesus  Christ.      *  The  marriages  during  the  past 

year  have  been  eighteen,  the  baptisms  one  hundred  and  eight, 
deaths,  nine.  Only  two  adults  of  the  congregation  have  died 
during  two  years  and  three  months  in  Cleveland. 


REV.    P.   J.    MACHEBEUF. 

Catholic  Telegraph,  January  28,  1843. 

We  regret  to  hear  that  the  Rev.  Mr.  Machebeuf,  the  pastor 
of  Lower  [?]  Sandusky  [Sandusky  City],  was  shipwrecked  on 
Lake  Ontario,  whilst  on  his  way  to  Quebec.  The  crew  and 
passengers  saved  their  lives  with  difficulty  and  landed  on  an 
island.  They  applied  for  shelter  at  a  farm-house  where  all 
were  kindly  received  until  the  owner  discovered  that  a  "popish 
priest "  was  among  his  guests.  Our  reverend  friend,  after 
much  solicitation,  was  graciously  permitted  to  sleep  011  the 
floor.     Such  Christian  charity  deserves  to  be  remembered! 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  287 

REV.    AMADEUS    RAPPE. 
Catholic  Telegraph.  September  23,  1843. 

The  Catholics  in  the  northwestern  part  of  the  diocese  are 
increasing  rapidly  under  the  spiritual  guidance  of  their  excel- 
lent pastor,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Rappe.  We  learn  that  two  new 
churches  are  to  be  erected,  one  at  Defiance  and  another  in 
Providence,  and  that  the  services  of  one  or  two  additional 
clergymen  will  be  required. 


REPORT   OF    REV.    AMADEUS    RAPPE'S  MISSIONS. 

Extracts  from  a  letter  written  by  Rev.  A.  Rappe  to  Bishop  Purcell. 

Catholic  Telegraph,  February  13,  1S45. 

DEFIANCE. —  *  *  "I  went  to  Defiance  the  15th  Jan- 
uary, [1845]  and  was  very  much  gratified  when  I  perceived  a 
small  frame  church  erected  by  the  care  and  sacrifices  of  a  few 
Catholic  families  of  that  place.  I  hope  to  celebrate  the  Holy 
Mass  in  it  before  Easter.  I  am  pleased  to  tell  you  that  every- 
thing has  been  conducted  so  well  that  it  will  be  out  of  debt 
when  finished.  It  is  not  a  splendid  building,  but  I  hope  the 
Almighty  God  will  have  more  regard  for  the  good  and  pious 
hearts,  which  built  up  an  humble  temple  for  his  glory,  with 
much  exertion,  than  for  a  monument  erected  by  pride,  or 
without  any  hard  sacrifice.        * 

"The  example  of  Defiance  has  produced  a  good  effect  on 
our  Catholic  friends  of  Providence,  already  animated  with  a 
zeal  for  putting  up  a  handsome  church  for  the  benefit  of  their 
souls.  They  feel  now  a  new  courage  to  go  on.  The  stone 
for  the  foundation  is  prepared.  We  have  received  a  gift  of 
40,000  brick  and  5,000  feet  of  lumber;  an  acre  of  ground  for 
the  church  and  school  house,  ami  two  acres  for  a  graveyard. 
*  The  work  will  go  on  in  the  spring.      The  church   will 

be  30x50  feet. 

FREMONT,  January,  [845.  -"  The  Catholics  of  Lower  San- 
dusky [Fremont]  have  opened  a  subscription  to  finish  the 
new  church.  Our  generous  friend,  Mr.  Dickinson,  has  given 
$50  towards  it,  and  Mr.  Rawson  $ 


288  CA  THOL IC  MISCELLANEA . 

SANDUSKY,  January,  1845. — "I  passed  a  few  days  at  San- 
dusky City,  where  I  found  the  congregation  increasing  *  * 
and  my  good  friend,  Rev.  Mr.  Machebeuf,  will  have  occasion 
to  build  an  addition  to  his  new  church  after  his  return.      *     * 


REVS.  PEUDEPRAT,  RAPPE  AND  DE   GOESBRIAXD. 

Noticing  the  publication  of  the  Catholic  Almanac  for  1846, 
the  Telegraph  says  (December  11,  1845):  "Rev.  Mr.  Peude- 
prat  has  succeeded  Rev.  Mr.  de  Goesbriand  as  pastor  of  St. 
Louis'  congregation,  [Louisville],  Stark  county  and  Rev.  Mr. 
de  Goesbriand  and  Rev.  Mr.  Rappe  are  united  in  the  care  of 
the  congregations  of  Toledo,  Maumee,  Defiance,  Providence, 
Napoleon  and  Lower  Sandusky  [Fremont]. 


SANDUSKY;     HOLY    ANGELS'. 

Extracts  from  a  letter  of  Rev.  Mr.  Machebeuf,  Sandusky  City,  published  in  the 
Catholic  Telegraph,  February  12,  1846. 

"Our  beautiful  little  church  has  been  finished  since  the 
first  Sunday  of  Advent  ;  and  the  steeple  and  spire  were  com- 
pleted and  the  bell  hung  in  time  for  Christmas.  I  have  never 
seen  our  people  in  better  spirits.  When  I  was  telling  them  a 
few  weeks  before  Xmas  that  I  expected  to  find  a  man  of  good 
will  who  would  volunteer  to  go  to  Toledo  for  the  bell,  one  of 
them,  by  an  excess  of  good  will,  forgot  he  was  in  church,  and 
cried  out  immediately:  'Say,  Priest,  I'll  go  to-morrow:'  and 
he  kept  his  word.  As  the  congregation  is  increasing  daily  I 
have  engaged  to  say  Mass  in  Sandusky  every  Sunday.     *     * 

"  I  had  the  pleasure  of  seeing  Rev.  Mr.  de  Goesbriand  on 
his  way  to  Toledo,  and  as  the  ice  was  good  on  the  bay  and 
the  lake  shore,  we  went  to  "give  church"  at  the  Canadian 
Settlement  [Toussaint],  on  the  Toussaint  river,  and  then  pro- 
ceeded together  to  Toledo,  all  the  way  on  the  ice.  But  I 
must  say,  en  passant,  that  we  enjoyed  somewhat  of  the  com- 
fort our  friends,  the  Baptists,  must  feel,  when,  in  the  heart  of 
winter,  they  are  dipped ;  for,  owing  to  a  little  forgetfulness  of 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  289 

•of  the  track  by  our  guide,  we  broke  in — about  fifteen  miles 
from  Toledo.  Rut  the  water  in  that  spot  was,  fortunately, 
not  more  than  five  feet  deep,  and  had  it  not  been  that  the 
vestments  and  books  of  my  reverend  friend  were  partially 
injured,  everything  would  have  turned  out  in  fun.  We  made 
land  as  soon  as  we  could,  and  having  kindled  a  fire  on  the 
edge  of  a  large  prairie,  we  dried  our  clothes  *  *  and 
continued  our  route  to  Toledo,  where  our  merry  and  amiable 
common  friend  [Rev.  A.  Rappe]  made  us  forget  our  mis- 
ap. 

TOLEDO. 

Catholic  Telegraph,  February  12,  1846. 

We  learn  from  Rev.  Mr.  Rappe  that  with  the  aid  of  his 
devoted  associate,  Rev.  Mr.  de  Goesbriand,  twenty-five  chil- 
dren were  prepared  to  make  their  first  communion  at  Toledo 
on  the  feast  of  the  Epiphany. 

The  youths  of  Maumee  and  La  Prairie  will  be  ready  to 
take  their  place  at  the  Divine  Banquet  towards  the  end  of 
Lent.  The  temperance  cause,  under  the  zealous  superintend- 
ence of  these  two  reverend  friends,  is  well  sustained  and  is 
doing  much  good  at  Toledo. 


TOLEDO;     SISTERS   OF    NOTRE    DAME    [OF   CINCINNATI]. 
Catholic    Telegraph,    April  30,    1 

The  sisters  and  scholars  are  blessed  with  excellent  health, 
and  tin  school,  under  such  able  management,  continues  to 
advance    in    its    successful    claims    to    public    patronage   and 

esteem.  We  can  not  sufficiently  admire  the  heroism  with 
which  these  Sisters,  with  the  humble  but  confident  hope  of 
being  useful  to  religion  and  society,  disregarded  tin-  fears  ol 
the  "Maumee"  fever,  from  which,  through  tin-  divine  blessing 
on  such  devotedness  as  theirs,  they  have  experienced  that 
there  was  nothing  to  far.  *  *  The  Sisters  <«t  Notre  Dame 
will  not  lie  forgotten  in  future  years  when  the  earliest  and 
mosl  efficient  pioneers  are  commemorated. 


290  CATHOLIC  MISCELLANEA. 

BISHOP  PURCELL'S  EPISCOPAL  VISITS. 


SANDUSKY  ;     FREMONT,    ETC. 
Catholic    Telegraph,  June  18,   1846. 

CONFIRMATION. — This  sacrament  was  administered  by  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  of  the  diocese  to  55  persons  in  the  church  of 
the  Holy  Angels,  Sandusky  City,  [Trinity  Sunday,  June  7]. 
Amongst  the  number  were  several  converts  whose  entrance 
into  the  true  fold  created  quite  a  sensation  in  the  denomina- 
tions they  had  left.  The  church  was  blessed  on  the  occasion 
by  the  Bishop,  assisted  by  Rev.  Messrs.  Machebeuf  and 
Byrne.  In  the  chapel  of  St.  Philomena,  on  the  Sandusky 
river,  [La  Prairie]  there  were  36  persons  confirmed  on  Mon- 
day, 8th  of  June,  and  45  at  Lower  Sandusky  [St.  Ann's,  Fre- 
mont] where  a  new  church  was  dedicated  [June  8th]. 

CLEVELAND;      TOLEDO;      PERU;      NORWALK;      NEW    RIEGEL; 

TIFFIN,    ETC. 
Catholic  Telegraph,  fuly  2,  1846 

On  the  feast  of  Pentecost  [May  31]  102  persons  were  con- 
firmed in  St.  Mary's  Church,  Cleveland,  and  16  in  the  church 
of  St.  John  of  the  Cross,  near  Laporte,  on  the  following 
Tuesday.  Forty-one  persons  were  confirmed  in  the  church 
of  St.  Francis,  at  Toledo,  on  the  14th  of  June  *  *  and 
41  in  the  church  of  St.  Alphonso  [Peru]  near  Norwalk,  on 
the  festival  of  Corpus  Christi  [June  nth].  There  was  a  very 
large  and  edifying  procession  in  the  majestic  woods  near  this 
church  in  the  forenoon,  and  in  the  afternoon  the  large  and 
beautiful  church  of  St.  Peter's,  Norwalk,  was  dedicated. 

Sixty-five  persons  were  confirmed  at  St.  Boniface's,  Wolfs 
Creek  [New  Riegel],  where  there  was  also  a  solemn  proces- 
sion on  the  Sunday  within  the  octave  [of  Corpus  Christi]. 
The  "old  [log]  church,"  so  called,  though  built  but  a  few 
years  ago,  has  to  be  taken  down,  and  a  new  one,  larger  and 
to  meet  the  wants  of  the  fast  increasing  congregation,  to  be 
erected  in  its  place. 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  29 t 

There  were  60  persons  confirmed  [June  21]  in  St.  Mary's 
Church,  Tiffin,  to  which  an  addition  [frame]  twice  the  size  of 
the  original  [brick]  building,  and  in  better  style  of  finish,  has 
been  recently  made. 

The  Roman  Catholic  Germans  have  also  built  at  Tiffin  a 
new,  large  and  beautiful  church  of  brick,  which  was  dedicated 
to  God  on  the  same  day  [June  21,]  in  honor  of  St.  Joseph. 
These  two  congregations  walked  in  procession  through  the 
town  to  assist  at  the  dedication.  The  High  Mass  was  sung 
by  the  Rev.  Matthias  Kreusch,  [C.  PP.  S.]  and  the  sermon  in 
German  was  preached  by  the  Rev.  Francis  de  Sales  Hrunner, 
[Provincial  of  the  Sanguinists].  *  *  The  church  of  St. 
Bernard,  New  Washington,  is  under  roof. 


BISHOP  PURCELL'S  EPISCOPAL  VISITS. 


DUNGANNON,   &C. 
Catholic   Telegraphy  July  16,   1846. 

Episcopal  Visitation.  Tuesday,   [July  7th,] 

the  Bishop  [Purcell]  confirmed  forty-six  at  St.  Paul's,  Colum- 
biana county.  The  corner-stone  of  a  new  church  [St.  Philip 
Neri's,  Dungannon]  one  mile  from  the  old  one,  which  is  now 
too  small,  will  be  laid  on  the  15th  of  August,  and  also  of 
another  [at  Summitville?],  so  much  have  the  Catholics  in  that 
vicinity  increased  under  the  pastoral  care  of  the  Rev.  [James] 
( Ionian. 


WOOSTER. 
Catholic    Telegraph,  August  26,   1847. 

The  comer-Stone  <>f  a  new  Catholic  church  was  laid  on 
last  Friday  [August  20],  in  Wooster,  Wayne  county,  Ohio,  by 
tli<-  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Purcell,  assisted  by  the  pastor,  Rev. 
Philip  Foley,  and  Rev.  Messrs.  J.  II.  Luhr  and  C.  Daly.  The 
church  is  t<>  be  sixty-five  by  thirty-eight  feet. 

It    will   be  built    of  brick,  with    a   solid    stone    foundation,   and 


29 2  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

situated  on  a  lot  of  two  and  one-half  acres  on  the  ed^e  of 
town.  A  portion  of  the  grounds  is  to  be  used  as  a  cemetery. 
At  the  close  of  the  ceremony  the  Bishop  addressed  an 
attentive  audience  in  English,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Luhr  in  German. 
The  pastor  and  flock  are  entitled  to  much  credit  for  their  gen- 
erous exertions  to  build  their  church  in  the  thriving  town  of 
Wooster,  where  the  number  of  Catholics  is  still  small,  but 
with  the  best  prospects  of  increase,  both  from  immigration, 
conversion,  or  reversion  of  many  who  have  forgotten  their 
baptism  in  the  Church,  or  their  having  sprung  from  Catholic 
parentage. 


AKRON,     ST.    VINCENT'S. 
Catholic  Telegraphy  September  9,  1S47. 

We  are  pleased  to  learn  that  Rev.  Mr.  Daly  has  built  a 
considerable  addition  to  the  church  of  St.  Vincent  de  Paul,  of 
Akron,  and  that  the  spirited  Catholics  of  Doylestown,  Wayne 
county,  and  its  vicinity,  have  resolved  to  build  a  new  and 
beautiful  church  at  the  last  mentioned  place,  one  mile  from 
the  site  of  the  church  of  St.  Xavier  [at  Chippewa],  now  too 
small  for  the  congregation. 


EPISCOPAL  VISITATION  BY  BISHOP  PURCELL. 


Catholic    Telegraph,  September  9,  1847, 

MASSILLON. — The  new  church  at  Massillon  [St.  Mary's], 
a  solid  stone  building,  78x40  feet,  was  dedicated  on  the  22d 
of  August.       *       * 

CANAL  FULTON,  August,  1847. — The  church  of  Canal 
Fulton,  a  handsome  frame,  64x37,  was  dedicated 

to  Almighty  God,  in  honor  of  the  holy  Apostles,  Philip  and 
James,  on  the  24th  of  the  same  month  [August].  These  two 
churches  are  under  the  pastoral  care  of  Rev.  Mr.  Foley.  We 
are  indebted  to  Judge  Griswold,  of  Canton,  agent  for  the  pro- 


CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA .  293 

prietor  in  New  York,  for  the  gift  of  three  lots  in  [Canal]  Ful- 
ton, on  which  the  church  is  eligibly  situated. 

CANTON. — St.  Peter's  Church,  Canton,  was  dedicated  on 
the  29th  of  August.  It  is  of  brick,  98x45,  a  cheap,  solid  and 
beautiful  building.        * 

NEW    BERLIN. — The  church   of  New  Berlin      *  and 

that  of  Harrisburgh  are   under  roof.     There  have 

been  nine  churches  built  in  as  many  years,  within  a  radius  of 
fourteen  miles  from  Canton. 

YOUNGSTOWN. — On    the    1st   of  September   [1847]  church 

was  held  in  the  house  of  Mr.  James  Moore,  in  Youngstown, 
Mahoning  county.  We  were  gratified   at  the  large 

increase  of  Catholics  near  Youngstown,  and  the  size  and  site, 
the  best  in  town,  given  us  for  a  church  by  the  Hon.  David 
Tod. 

Akron. — Mr.  James  V.  Conlan,  a  student  of  the  diocesan 
seminary,  received  tonsure  and  minor  orders  in  St.  Vincent's 
Church,  Akron,  on  the  2nd  of  September,  Sub-deaconship  on 
the  $i\,  the  holy  order  of  Deacon  on  the  4th,  and  on  Sunday, 
the  5th,  he  will  be  ordained  priest. 


DIOCESE   OF   CLEVELAND. 


Catholit    Telegraph,    October  14,    1S47. 
I  1  >NS1  1  1:  V  IK  »\'   OF    BISHOP    RAPPE. 

This  ceremony  [of  consecration]  took  place  on  last  Sun- 
day ((  K  tnlier  10]  in  the  cathedral  of  Cincinnati.  An  immense 
congregation  was  present,  filling  every  part  of  the  ample 
edifice-,  and  preserving  throughout  the  solemn  exercises  tin- 
greatest  order  and  attention.     The  Rt.  Rev,  Dr.  Purcell  \\.i- 


294  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

the  consecrating  prelate,  assisted  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Whelan, 
Bishop  of  Richmond.       *       * 

BISHOP    RAPPE. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Dr.  Rappe  left  town  yesterday  on  his  way  to 
Cleveland.  The  separation  of  clergymen,  heretofore  labor- 
ing under  one  bishop,  was  not  without  some  manifestation  of 
feeling.  There  has  been  always  such  strong  attachment 
between  us,  and  so  much  friendship  in  our  intercourse  with 
each  other,  such  joy  when  we  met  and  such  regret  at  parting, 
that  we  were  not  surprised  at  the  emotion  with  which  hands 
were  shaken,  when  those  of  the  new  diocese  took  farewell  of 
their  brethren  who  remained  attached  to  the  diocese  of  Cin- 
cinnati. Henceforth  there  will  be  a  holy  rivalry  in  working 
for  God.  If  we  can  carry  into  effect  only  half  the  good  reso- 
lutions and  promises  and  pledges  which  we  made  at  parting, 
the  way  the  old  faith  will  prosper  in  Ohio  will  astonish  the 
"Evangelical  Alliance!" 


BISHOP    RAPPE. 
Cleveland  Daily  Herald,  March  16,    1S48. 

*  *  The  Catholic  population  of  our  city  and  immediate 
vicinity  now  numbers  about  4,000,  and  the  wants  of  the  people 
require  a  much  larger  and  more  central  place  of  worship  than 
St.  Mary's  Church  [on  the  Flats].  An  effort  will  be  made  to 
build  a  cathedral  the  present  year,  and  for  this  purpose  the 
well  known  liberality  of  our  citizens  will  be  appealed  to.  *  * 
A  site  for  the  location  of  the  cathedral  at  the  head  of  Superior, 
and  the  corner  of  Erie  and  Meadow  streets,  has  been  pur- 
chased, and  we  have  seen  a  drawing  of  the  proposed  edifice, 
which  will  add  very  much  to  the  good  taste  and  inviting 
appearance  of  our  beautiful  young  city. 


CA  THOL IC  M ISC  ELL  ANEA .  295 

REPORT   OK     BISHOP     RAPPE'S    EPISCOPAL     VISITS   TO   AKRON, 
RANDOLPH,    NAVARRE,    WOOSTER,    DOYLESTOWN,   &C. 

Catholic  Telegraph,  August  g,  1849. 

On  the  1st  of  July,  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Rappe  administered 
the  sacrament  of  confirmation  to  ten  persons  in  St.  Vincent 
de  Paul's,  Akron.  Summit  county,  Ohio. 

On  the  3d  he  confirmed  forty-seven  at  Randolph, 

Portage  county,  and  dedicated  the  new  church. 

He  visited  Bethlehem  [Navarre],  Stark  county,  on  the 
4th.  Here  the  people  have  secured  the  material  for  a  new- 
church,  65x40  feet,  to  be  built  of  brick. 

On  the  6th  of  Jul)'  the  Bishop  visited  Wooster,  Wayne 
county,  where  there  is  a  beautiful  new  church  under  roof.  It 
was  here  the  first  Bishop  of  Cincinnati,  [Rt.  Rev.  E.  Fenwick] 
"laid  down  his  life  for  his  sheep,"  having  fallen  a  victim  to 
the  cholera  in  1 S 3 2 ,  while  engaged  in  the  visitation  of  his 
extensive  diocese.        *       * 

On  the  8th  the  Bishop  laid  the  corner  stone  of  a  new 
church  at  Doylestown.        *       * 

On  the  9th  twenty-eight  persons  were  confirmed  in  Bristol 
[Marshallville],  Wayne  count)-.  Here  also,  a  new  church  is 
in  process  of  erection. 

The  Bishop  purchased  a  church  [Protestant  frame  meeting 
house,]  in  Mansfield,  where  there  is  a  very  good  prospect  for 
a  large  congregation. 


BISHOP    RAPPE'S    FIRST    VISIT    TO    EUROPE. 
Catholic  Telegraph,  August^  1S49. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Rappe  will  sail  for  Europe,  on  busi- 
ness connected  with  the  interests  of  religion  in  his  new  and 
flourishing  diocese,  early  in  September.  We  cordially  wish 
the  good  prelate  .1  prosperous  voyage  and  .1  safe  return.  The 
new  cathedral  of  Cleveland  is  now  in  process  ol  erection. 


296  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

BISHOP    RAPPE    ON   INTEMPERANCE. 

March  27,  185  1,  Bishop  Rappe  published  a  pastoral  on  the 
vice  of  intemperance.  Commencing'  on  it,  the  Catholic  Tele- 
graph, of  April  5,  1 83 1 ,  says:  "We  publish  to-day  a  pastoral 
of  the  Rt.  Reverend,  the  Bishop  of  Cleveland,  on  a  topic 
which  is  now  creating  much  excitement.  The  Bishop,  as  is 
well  known,  is  indefatigable  in  his  effort  to  banish  intemper- 
ance, and  uncompromising  in  his  hostility  to  the  means  by 
which  it  is  perpetuated  in  the  community. 


ST.  JOHN'S  COLLEGE,  CLEVELAND. 

Under  date  of  August  5,  1855,  the  Cincinnati  Telegraph 
is  informed  that  "  St.  John's  College,  an  institution  which 
commenced  its  first  session  last  year  deserves  particular 
notice.  It  has  lately  undergone  several  changes  and 
improvements.  It  is  now  presided  over  by  Rev.  Louis  Molon, 
formerly  of  Massillon,  and  has  a  new  faculty  whose  know- 
ledge and  experience  as  professors  in  some  of  the  best  Euro- 
pean establishments  guarantee  results.  It  will  open  this 
year,  the  first  week  of  September." 


BISHOP  RAPPE. — ST.  JOHN'S  CATHEDRAL,  CLEVELAND. 

Cincinnati    Telegraph,  December  6,   1851. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  of  Cleveland  preached  in  the  cathe- 
dral of  this  city  last  Sunday.  Being  now  engaged  in  the 
erection  of  a  cathedral,  he  has  appealed  to  the  Catholics  of 
Cincinnati  to  aid  him  in  completing  the  work.  For  this  pur- 
pose a  collection  will  be  made  at  the  cathedral  on  Sunday,, 
and  also  at  the  church  of  St.  Francis  Xavier.       *      * 


CA  THOLJC  M ISC  EL  LANE  A .  297 

CONSECRATION    OF   ST.   JOHN'S   CATHEDRAL,    CLEVELAND. 
Cleveland  Herald,  November  8,  1852. 
*       *       The  consecration   services    were   witnessed    Sun- 

1 

day  forenoon  [November  7th]  by  a  very  large  audience. 
Owing  to  the  rough  weather  on  the  lake  the  Hi  shops  of  Bos- 
ton, Buffalo  and  Detroit  were  not  present.  The  cathedral 
was  consecrated  by  the  Most  Rev.  Archbishop  Purcell  of 
Cincinnati.  The    Rt.    Rev.    M.  J.    Spalding,  Bishop 

of  Louisville,  delivered  a  brief  and  appropriate  discourse,  and 
High    Mass  was  celebrated  by  the  Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Rappe,  of 
Cleveland;   in  the  afternoon  Vespers,  and  a  sermon  in  German, 
by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Ruhr,  of  Canton. 

In  the  evening  Archbishop  Purcell  delivered  an  able  and 
eloquent  discourse  on  the  progress  of  the  Catholic  Church, 
particularly  in  the  United  States  and  in  the  West.  He 
referred  to  the  time  when  the  Babe  of  Bethlehem  had  not 
even  a  stable  wherein  to  lay  His  head  in  a  village  now  grown 
to  be  the  beautiful  forest  City;  to  the  first  meetings  of  a 
feeble  band  of  Catholics  in  Shakespeare  Hall.  He  made 
mention  of  the  donation,  by  liberal  citizens,  of  the  site-  for  St. 
Marx'-,  Church,  and  of  the  progress  of  that  church  to  the 
Splendid  sanctuary  this  day  consecrated.  The  eloquent  pre- 
late paid  a  warm  tribute  to  the  self-sacrificing  labors  of  Bishop 
Rappe;  to  his  devotion  in  leaving  his  pleasant  home  in  sunny 
France  on  a  mission  of  mercy  among  the  sons  of  toil  on  the 
then  sickly  Maumee;  spoke  of  his  sharing  the  humblest  cabin 
with  the  poorest  of  his  flock,  and  of  the  high  reward  which 
has  attended  his  faithful  ministration.       ::" 


I  l  \  I  I  N    PASTORAL  LETTER  <>l     Mil     RT.  REV.   BISHOP  RAP! 
Publishedin  Cincinnati  4,  February  2,  I 

To  the  Clergy  and  Laity  of  the  Diocese  of  Cleveland: 

Beloved  Children  i\  Christ:  We  have  just  termin- 
ated the  seventh  visitation  of  our  new  diocese,  .\nd  it  is  with 
feeliners  of  deep  ■latitude  to  the  God  of  Mercy  that  we  have 


298  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

witnessed  the  rapid  progress  which  the  faith  is  making  yearly. 
The  number  of  our  zealous  clergy,  of  the  faithful,  the  churches, 
the  schools,  and  religious  institutions  has  increased  to  the 
rate  of  one  in  three,  in  the  short  period  of  eight  years;  and, 
what  is  more  consoling,  is,  to  see  the  spirit  of  piety  and  zeal 
prevailing  in  every  congregation,  and  an  invariable  calmness 
and  fortitude  manifested  by  our  beloved  children  in  this  late 
time  of  systematic  persecution  against  the  Church  of  God. 
But  we  should  be  unjust  in  not  acknowledging  that,  after 
God,  this  holy  growth  of  religion  and  Christian  virtue  has 
been  highly  forwarded  and  developed  by  the  zeal,  self-denial, 
prudence  and  piety  of  our  brethren  in  the  holy  ministry. 
You  have  fought  a  good  fight,  worthy  co-operators,  and  you 
already  enjoy  the  fruits  of  your  hard  labors.  But,  in  order  to 
secure  and  increase  more  and  more  this  consoling  improve- 
ment in  your  beloved  flocks,  continue  indefatigable  in  the 
care  of  the  youth.  Look  upon  the  first  communion  of  your 
little  ones  as  the  groundwork  of  a  holy  life.  I  would  exhort 
you  earnestly  to  set  apart  five  or  six  weeks,  immediately 
before  admitting  them  to  the  Holy  Table,  in  order  to  assemble 
them  twice  a  day,  and,  in  a  familiar  and  pious  manner,  explain 
to  them  the  Christian  doctrine,  enlighten  their  minds  with  a 
knowledge  of  the  fundamental  truths  of  religion,  and  lead 
their  innocent  hearts  to  the  practice  of  piety  and  devotion. 
Do  your  best  to  induce  the  priests  in  your  vicinity  to  give  a 
few  days'  spiritual  retreat  to  them  before  their  general  confes- 
sion and  first  communion.  "  Suffer  little  children  to  come 
unto  me."  By  doing  so,  dearly  beloved  friends,  (and  many 
of  you  have  experienced  it)  you  will  create  a  new  generation 
to  replace  the  old  one,  which  has  so  nobly  and  so  constantly 
kept  the  faith  and  made  the  most  generous  sacrifices  for  the 
Catholic  church  in  this  country.  I  need  not  insist,  beloved 
parents,  on  the  necessity  of  your  seconding  the  efforts  and 
zeal  of  your  beloved  pastors.  You  will  send  your  children  to 
religious  instruction  at  the  time  appointed  by  your  clergy; 
you  will  edify  them  at  home  by  your  pious  example  ;  you  will 
draw  from  Heaven  by  your  fervent  prayers  the  graces  neces- 


CA  THOL IC  MISCELLANEA .  299 

sary  to  secure  to  them  the  immense  blessings  of  a  good  first 
communion.  On  that  happy  day  Jesus  will  hasten  to  come 
unto  them,  to  abide  with  them.  "He  that  eateth  my  flesh 
and  drinketh  my  blood  abideth  in  me  and  I  in  him."  He  will 
transform  their  innocent  hearts  into  delightful  temples  of 
piety  and  zeal.  They  will  live  by  Jesus  and  the  life  of  Jesus; 
but  alas!  should  they  receive  unworthily,  for  want  of  prepara- 
tion and  a  sincere  confession,  then  they  would  eat  and  drink 
their  own  judgment  and  condemnation.  In  that  case  the 
Bread  of  Life  is  changed  into  a  fatal  poison  which  produces 
in  the  soul  a  deadly  languor,  a  disgust  of  the  things  of  God, 
a  kind  of  despair,  and  not  unfrequently  a  total  shipwreck  of 
faith  and  salvation.  Such  being  the  awful  consequences  of  a 
bail  communion,  would  you  consent,  beloved  parents,  to  neg- 
lect anything  in  your  power,  to  prevent  it?  O,  no!  you  love 
your  children  too  dearly  to  expose  their  souls  to  such  mis- 
fortune and  ruin.  You  love  your  Church  too  dearly  to  see 
them,  by  your  fault,  become  her  disgrace  and  her  enemies. 
You  have  too  great  a  zeal  for  your  salvation  to  suffer  your 
own  children  to  be  your  condemnation  before  the  tribunal  of 
God.  You  know  you  are  bound  to  secure  as  far  as  you  can 
the  religious  instruction  of  your  family.  "He  who  does  not 
care  of  his  own  household,"  says  St.  Paul,  "hath  denied  the 
Faith,  and  is  worse  than  an  infidel."  We  have  full  confidence, 
then,  that  you  will  correspond  with  our  exhortations  and  con- 
sult your  welfare  in  sending  your  children  timet)'  and  punc- 
tually to  receive  the  instructions  of   their  pastors. 

fAMADEUS,  Bishop  of  Cleveland. 


ST.    MARY'S   SEMINARY,   CLEVELAND. 

The  main   building  of  St.  Mary's  Seminary,  was  begun  in 
tin-  fill  of   [859.      I"  relation  to   the  seminary.    Bishop    Rappe 

published  .1  pastoral  letter,  October  29,  is;i),  from  which  the 

following  i>  taken: 

"Considering  our   pecuniary  difficulties   we  should   have 


3oo  CA  THOLIC  MISCELLANEA . 

postponed  the  erection  of  our  new  seminary,  but  over-crowded 
in  the  old  building,  and  fearing  for  the  health  of  the  professors 
and  students,  we  have  been  compelled  to  begin  the  new 
edifice  this  fall.  Trusting  in  the  help  of  a  kind  Providence 
which  so  frequently  has  blessed  our  efforts;  trusting  also  in 
the  generosity  of  the  Catholics  of  our  diocese,  we  hope  to 
have  the  work  finished  before  next  summer.      *     *  ' 


OTTOVILLE;    FINDLAY. 
Catholic  Teh-graph,  October  13,  1S60. 

The  corner  stone  for  a  new  church  at  Ottoville,  Putnam 
county,  Ohio,  was  laid  on  the  9th  of  September  [i860],  by 
Rev.  Fr.  Westerholt,  pastor  of  Delphos,»0.  The  church  is 
to  be  80  by  40  feet;  from  floor  to  ceiling  26  feet;  height  of 
steeple  about  100  feet;  style  of  architecture,  Gothic. 

A  new  frame  church  was  dedicated  at  Findlay,  on  the  2d 
of  October  [i860],  by  the  Very  Rev.  Father  Luhr,  V.  G.  The 
pastor  of  this  place  is  the  Rev.  FatherRoetzer. 


FINDLAY,    OHIO. 

Letter  to    Cincinnati  Catholic  Telegraph,  February  fo,  1869. 

"*  Fin'dlay  is  a  brisk  little  place  of  about  4,500 

inhabitants,  amongst  whom  *  about  two  hundred 

Catholics,  mostly  Germans,  with  the  exception  of  about  ten 
Irish  and  French  families.  Eighteen  or  twenty  years  ago  it 
contained  five  or  six  Catholic  families,  attending  Mass  in  a 
small  room  of  a  private  dwelling,  the  priest  saying  Mass  on  a 
common  table  or  stand.  After  a  time  [1856]  Rev.  Father 
O'Sullivan,  of  Tiffin,  built  a  small  [frame]  church  here,  about 
20x40  feet  in  size.  Later  [1861]  Rev.  Fr.  Roetzer  built  an 
addition  in  front  of  it,  and  a  school  house  in  the  rear,  using 
the  old  part  for  the  priest's  residence.      However,   it  was  to 


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stand  but  a  short  time,  for  it  was  hardly  paid  for  when  it 
caught  fire  from  a  defective  flue  in  the  school  house  and 
burned  to  the  ground.  Another  site  was  then  obtained,  and 
another  church  was  soon  under  way,  under  the  supervision  of 
Rev.  Father  Dechant.  But  he  was  destined  to  see  only  the 
foundation  completed  when  lie  was  removed  [1867]  to  another 
parish,  and  Rev.  Father  Vattmann  placed  in  his  stead,  [June, 
1867].  Father  Vattmann  has  the  exterior  of  the  church  now 
finished,  with  the  exception  of  part  of  tower  and  the  cornice. 
We  have  a  fine  1  ,Soo  lb.  bell;  *  *  "  the  church  is  90x45 
feet  in  size,  26  feet  from  floor  to  ceiling.  The  chuch  is  built 
of  brick,  and  the  tower  built  up  50  feet  of  brick,  to  be  con- 
tinued with  frame  work.  We  are  much  indebted  to  our  non- 
Catholic  friends  for  their  generous  donation  towards  erecting 
urcli.  *        K 


RETREAT    FOR    THE    SECULAR    CLERGY    OF    THE    DIOCESE    OF 

CLEVELAND. 

[Last  Official  Communication  publishsd  by  Bishop  Rappe.] 

Cincinnati   Catholic    Telegraph.  July  28,  1869. 

An  ecclesiastical  retreat  will  be  opened  in  our  seminary 
of  Cleveland,  on  the  evening  of  the  [6th  of  August,  and  will 
close  * >  11  the  23d  of  the  same  month.  As  our  seminary  has 
not  sufficient  accommodation  for  all  the  priests  of  our  diocese 
we  invite,  first,  tin-  clergymen  who  did  not  enjoy  the  blessing 
of  the  retreat  last  year.  Should  a  few  rooms  remain  free 
they  will  be  given  to  those  who  made  their  retreat  last  year. 
Lei  them  apply  as  soon  as  possible. 

The  reverend  clergy  coming  to  the  retreat  are  requested 
to  bring  along  cassock,  beretta,  etc. 

t  AMADEUS, 
Bishop  of  ( )le\  eland. 


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REMINISCENCES    OF    BISHOP    MACHEBEUF'S 
MISSIONARY  LABORS  IN  NORTHERN  OHIO. 

{Published  by  himself  in  the  Catholic  Universe,  October  l8,  1888.*] 

In  the  fall  of  1838  the  young  bishop  of  Cincinnati,  the  Rt. 
Rev.  J.  B.  Purcell,  made  his  first  visit  to  Rome,  and  from  Paris 
wrote  to  the  Very  Rev.  Father  Comfe,  his  former  professor  of 
theology  at  St.  Sulpice,  and  at  this  time  superior  of  the  semi- 
nary of  Mont-Ferrand,  diocese  of  Clermont,  to  procure  for  him 
some  missionaries  for  his  new  diocese.  Rev.  J.  B.  Lamy  and 
myself  having  several  times  expressed  our  intention  of  going 
to  the  foreign  missions,  were  notified  to  be  ready  to  go  in  the 
spring  with  Bishop  Purcell  to  Cincinnati.  In  the  meantime 
we  succeeded  in  finding  three  more  priests  disposed  to  offer 
their  services  to  the  zealous  bishop.  They  were  the  Rev. 
Father  Gacon,  who  spent  his  missionary  life  at  St.  Martin, 
Brown  county,  and  died  there  as  chaplain  of  the  Ursuline 
convent  ;  the  Rev.  William  Cheymol,  who  succeeded  him  as 
chaplain;  and  the  Rev.  Father  Navarron,  who  established  a 
mission  in  Clermont  county,  and  died  as  pastor  of  the  parish 
he  had  organized. 

In  company  with  Bishop  Purcell,  Bishop  Flaget,  of  Bards- 
town,  Ky.,  Rev.  John  McGill,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Richmond, 
three  priests  from  some  other  diocese,  and -two  Sisters,  in  all 
fifteen  persons,  we  set  sail  from  Havre  May  9,  1839.  After  a 
tedious  voyage  of  forty-four  days,  we  landed  safely  in  New 
York.  Traveling  by  canal  and  stage  coaches,  we  arrived  in 
Cincinnati  August  22d  following.  Of  all  my  compagnons  de 
voyage  I  am  the  only  one  left  in  this  world;  all  the  others 
have  gone  to  their  reward. 

After  a  few  days'  rest  we  all'  received  our  appointments: 
Father  Lamy,  as  pastor  of  Danville,  in  Knox  county,  a  large 
settlement  of  Catholic  Americans  who  had  come  from  Mary- 
land, and  a  few  good  German  families.  I  was  sent  to  Tiffin, 
Seneca  county,  as  assistant  to  Rev.  Joseph  M'Namee,  a  very 
pious   Irish   priest,  but  very  sickly.     After  the  Redemptorist 


;:  See  also  Catholic  Universe,  January  31,  1889. 


BISHOP  MACHEBEUF.  303 

Fathers  of  Peru,  near  Norwalk,  had  been  called  away  from 
Ohio  (April,  1839),  only  one  Father,  the  Rev.  F.  X.  Tschen- 
hens,  had  been  left  to  attend  all  the  missions  of  the  north-west. 
During  the  three  months  I  spent  in  Tiffin,  from  August  to 
December,  I  visited  the  different  missions,  saying  Mass  and 
commencing  to  speak  some  broken  English,  and  even  to  hear 
confessions.  Father  M'Namee,  unable  to  undertake  distant 
missions,  took  pastoral  charge  of  Tiffin  and  vicinity.  In  the 
beginning  of  November,  1 839,  I  visited  for  the  first  time  the 
Irish  laborers  working  on  the  National  or  macadamized  road, 
then  being  built  through  the  "  Black  Swamp,"  from  Fremont 
(at  that  time  known  as  Lower  Sandusky)  to  Perrysburg,  on 
the  Maumee  river.  I  first  visited  Lower  Sandusky,  where  I 
received  the  kind  hospitality  of  Mrs.  Dickinson  and  of  Mrs. 
Rawson,  very  respectable  French  ladies,  married  to  Protestant 
gentlemen.  In  Lower  Sandusky  I  learned  that  nine  or  ten 
miles  down  the  river  a  good  number  of  Canadian  farmers  had 
settled  on  Mud  Creek  (in  French,  Riviere  an  Nasc).  I  went 
there  immediately  and  found  over  thirty  families,  mostly  from 
Detroit  and  Monroe,  Mich.  In  the  few  days  I  spent  with  them 
I  had  the  greatest  consolation.  All  of  them  received  the  sac- 
raments and  showed  the  best  disposition.  I  appointed  some 
pious  Ladies  to  teach  catechism  on  Sundays,  and  two  or  three 
times  during  the  week,  to  a  large  number  of  children.  A  good 
widow  lady  gave  a  beautiful  site  on  the  bank  of  the  river  for 
a  church,  or  rather  chapel.  Before  leaving  these 

■  d  and  pious  people  I  promised  to  visit  them  every  month, 
and  in  order  to  facilitate  my  visits  I  bought  on  credit  a  Cana- 
dian poll)-,  borrowed  a  saddle,  and  after  resting  another  day 
at  Lower  Sandusky,  commenced  the  tedious  and  Ion-  journey 
through  tin-  Black  swamp  to  the  Maumee  river,  traveling  only 
a  few  miles  a  day.  The  National  road  was  graded  and  partly 
macadamized,  but  very  rough.  I  had  gone  only  five  or  six 
miles  to  the  river  when  some  good  Irishmen,  breaking  the 
-tone  lor  the  road,  recognized  me  as  priest.  They  called  un- 
to a  large  log  cabin  to  attend  a  sick  man;  but  there  was  no 
siik  man!  It  was  a  pious  fraud  to  keep  me  lor  the  next  day, 
which  was  Sunday.     Whilst  I  was   wanning  myself  my  pony 


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was  taken  to  a  stable,  and  the  women  were  preparing  another 
cabin  for  me,  making  a  good  fire;  it  was  in  November,  and  the 
weather  was  wet  and  cold.  Well,  I  cheerfully  resigned  my- 
self to  spend  the  Sunday  with  these  good  people.  Early  the 
next  day  I  put  up  an  altar  and   prepared  everything  for  Mass. 

I  then  said  Mass  and  ventured  to  address 
them  a  few  words  of  broken  English.  After  Mass  I  had  four 
or  five  children  to  baptize,  and  the  generous  men  were  so 
thankful  for  having  a  chance  to  hear  Mass  in  that  wild  country 
and  to  have  their  children  baptized  that  they  gave  me  almost 
enough  money  to  pay  for  my  pony.  Promising  to  visit  them 
again  on  my  return,  I  started  the  next  day  for  Perrysburg. 

At  that  time  Perrysburg  was  a  poor,  little  village,  on  the 
east  side  of  the  Maumee  river.  There  I  found  only  one  family, 
poor  Canadians,  in  a  little  cabin.  How  glad  I  was  then  that 
I  had  been  called  on  Saturday  for  that  sick  (?)  man. 

After  Mass  in  the  cabin  of  the  Canadian  I  crossed  the 
bridgeless  river  with  great  difficulty  and  went  to  Maumee 
"  City  "  on  the  opposite  side,  where  I  found  two  or  three  Cath- 
olics, said  Mass  for  them,  and  then  set  foot  for  Toledo. 

Toledo,  to-day  a  beautiful  large  city,  with  eleven  parishes) 
Catholic  schools,  educational  and  charitable  institutions,  was 
then  [1839]  a  real  mud  Jiolc,  on  the  banks  of  the  Maumee  river. 
It  comprised  a  few  frame  houses,  some  log  cabins,  swamps, 
ponds  of  muddy  water,  and  worse  yet,  a  number  of  persons 
sick  with  the  Maumee  fever.  There  were  a  very  few  Catholic 
families,  and  five  or  six  single  men.  I  said  Mass  for  eight  or 
ten  persons  in  the  frame  shanty  of  a  poor  Canadian.  As  they 
knew  of  a  few  families  along  the  river  and  in  the  country,  I 
remained  at  Toledo  a  few  days  to  give  them  a  chance  to  hear 
Mass  and  go  to  confession.  But  there  being  no  suitable  house 
I  spent  some  time  looking  for  a  room  large  enough.  This  I 
found  over  a  little  drug-store.  As  Toledo  was  the  town  which 
had  the  best  prospects  for  future  growth  and  permanency  we 
rented  that  room,  called  a  "  hall,"  and  made  up  some  kind 
of  an  altar  with  dry-goods  boxes.  A  few  yards  of  colored 
calico  served  as  an  antipendium.  In  my  later  visits  I  found  a 
few    benches  and  two   brass   candlesticks.       It   was  the    first 


BISHOP  MACHEBEUF.  305 

"church"  of  good  Father  Rappe,  when  in  1841  he  was  sent 
there  from  Chillicothc,  where  he  had  spent  some  time  to  learn 
English  in  the  house  of  Major  Anderson,  a  pious  convert  who 
could  speak  French.  It  was  in  Mr.  Anderson's  house  I  met 
Father  Rappe  for  the  first  time. 

After  spending  a  few  days  in  Toledo  I  went  back  to  Mau- 
mee  and  kept  visiting  the  little  towns  along  the  banks  of  the 
Maumee  river,  e.  ^:,  Providence  and  Napoleon.  The  most  of 
the  Catholics  in  this  section  were  Irishmen  working  on  the 
canal,  chiefly  near  Napoleon.  As  the)'  all  lived  in  miserable 
tents,  crowded  and  filthy,  I  could  not  find  any  corner  for  me.  I 
engaged  what  was  called  the  "parlor,"  at  the  village  tavern,  and 
on  my  return  at  night  from  saying  Mass  in  the  mess-room,  and 
visiting  a  (cw  sick,  was  glad  to  find  a  quiet  room  and  a  good  fire. 

But  I  must  relate  a  little  anecdote  which  I  mentioned  in  a 
meeting  of  the  Catholic  circles  in  Paris.  It  interested  them 
very  much,  and  gave  them  an  idea  of  the  adventures  of  mis- 
sionary life  in  America.  One  evening,  when  I  returned  as 
usual  to  my  room,  after  visiting  the  camps  above  and  below 
the  town,  I  found  a  large  number  of  wagons  and  horses  hitched 
to  the  fence,  the  house  and  hallway  being  crowded.  1  had  to 
go  in  by  the  back  door,  and  was  told  by  the  landlord,  that 
Napoleon  being  the  county  seat,  and  his  house  the  largest  in 
the  town,  and  my  room  the  most  convenient  place  for  holding 
court,  his  honor,  the  judge,  was  occupying  my  chair,  and  the 
lawyers  and  jurymen  some  rough  benches  and  soap  boxes — 
in  fact,  that  court  was  being  held  in  my  room.  I  had  there- 
fore to  "o  to  an  old  log  cabin  which  answered  for  a  tlining  and 
sitting  room,  wlu-re  I  said  my  office  and  took  supper.  But  as 
I  was  tired,  and  the  court  still  is  session,  I  passed  through  the 
crowd  of  nun  into  my  room.  I  found  my  bed  occupied  by 
three  men  setting  crossways.  I  whispered  to  them  that  hav- 
ing engaged  that  room,  and  slept  a  few  nights  in  that  bed,  1 
had  a  right  to  it.  They  rather  hesitated,  but  as  1  insisted 
they  got  out;  and  as,  fortunately,  it  had  curtains,  1  closed 
them  carefully  and,  to  the  amusement  of  those  who  were  near 
by,  I  undressed,  went  to  bed  and  slept  a  f<-w  hours  till  court 
was  over,  when  the  men,  with  their  big  boots  and  loud  voices, 


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aroused  me  from  my  sleep.  The  man  who  was  tried,  and  who 
had  watched  me,  came  to  my  bed  and  asked  me  how  I  got 
along.  I  told  him  "very  well,"  and  asked  him  what  the 
decision  of  the  court  was.  He  informed  me  that  he  got 
"clear."  He  then  left,  and  for  the  rest  of  the  night  I  had  a 
quiet  and  undisturbed  sleep.  The  next  day  I  continued  my 
visit,  going  as  far  as  Independence,  near  the  Indiana  State 
line,  where  I  found  a  few  Catholic  families. 

Well  pleased  with  my  first  visit  to  the  public  works  I 
returned  slowly  to  Tiffin,  where  I  remained  till  the  end  of 
December.  During  that  month  I  heard  that  Bishop  Purcell 
was  expected  in  some  town  south  of  Tiffin.  I  went  to  meet 
him  there.  The  good  bishop  received  me  very  kindly  and 
kept  me  a  few  days  to  help  him  on  the  visitation.  Before 
returning  he  told  me  that  as  I  was  able  to  get  along  fairly  well 
in  English  he  appointed  me  pastor  of  Sandusky.  Here  there 
was  neither  church  nor  house,  and  only  a  few  Catholic  fami- 
lies, whose  acquaintance  I  had  made  whilst  attending  a  sick 
call  there  from  Tiffin.  *  *  *  *  * 

I  went  to  Sandusky  to  take  pastoral  charge  of  the  place 
on  the  first  day  of  January,  1840.  From  Sandusky  I  con- 
tinued for  some  time  to  visit  Lower  Sandusky  [Fremont], 
Maumee,  Toledo,  and  all  the  missions  of  the  north-west.  I 
do  not  remember  exactly  when  good  Father  Rappe  was  sent 
to  Toledo  as  pastor.  I  think  it  was  in  1 841.  We  used  to 
visit  each  other  every  few  weeks.  He  did  not  say  Mass  very 
long  in  the  room  I  had  rented.  He  had  the  good  fortune  of 
buying  (1842)  very  cheap,  a  pretty  good-sized  Methodist 
church,  all  finished  and  having  a  good  basement.  In  the 
latter  he  had  his  residence  for  some  time.  The  bell  which 
belonged  to  one  of  the  societies  was  bought  also.  As  there  was 
no  town  clock,  it  had  been  used  also  for  the  benefit  of  the  public 
to  strike  6  A.  M.  12  noon,  and  6  in  the  evening,  for  which  a  com- 
pensation was  paid  by  the  town.  But  after  it  had  been  bought 
for  the  church  the  town  refused  to  pay  for  it;   adieu  clock  ! 

In  1843  there  was  no  pastoral  retreat  in  Cincinnati,  and 
good  Father  Rappe  invited  Father  Lamy,  of  Mount  Vernon, 
Father  De  Goesbriand,  of  Louisville,  Stark  Co.,  and  myself, 


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to  make  a  private  retreat  together.  We  all  accepted  his 
invitation,  remaining  five  days,  and  enjoying  his  hospitality, 
and  his  zeal  and  piety  as  director  of  the  retreat. 

In  the  course  of  time  Father  Rappe  was  made  bisbop  of 
Cleveland,  afterwards  Father  Lamy,  bishop  of  Santa  Fe;  later, 
Father  De  Goesbriand  became  bishop  of  Burlington.  Your 
humble  servant  was  the  last  to  be  made  bishop. 

In  1844  family  affairs  obliged  me  to  go  to  France,  and 
Bishop  Purcell  requested  me  to  procure  him  some  more  priests 
and  a  community  of  Sisters  for  Brown  county.  As  Father 
Rappe  had  been  for  sometime  chaplain  of  the  large  and  mag- 
nificent convent  and  academy  of  the  Ursulines  at  Boulogne 
sur-Mer,  France,  he  gave  me  letters  of  introduction  to  the 
Mother  Superior  of  the  community.  From  London  I  went 
directly  to  Boulogne  and  succeeded  in  getting  two  English 
nuns,  both  converts,  and  an  Irish  nun.  In  the  south  of  France 
I  found  eight  more  Ursulines,  who  went  to  Havre,  where  we 
all  met,  ami  with  three  priests  formed  a  goodly  party  of  our 
own.  Before  going  to  France  I  had  applied  for  an  assist- 
ant priest.  As  none  was  to  be  had,  I  was  told  to  bring  one 
from  France  and  keep  him  as  an  assistant.  I  succeeded  in 
procuring  a  schoolmate  of  mine,  a  very  good  and  zealous 
priest,  the  Rev.  Peter  Peudeprat;  the  other  two  were  left  at 
Pittsburgh,  at  the  request  of  Bishop  Purcell.  The  priest  I 
brought  for  my  missions  was  to  be  pastor  of  Lower  Sandusky. 
Well,  I  kept  him  with  me  in  Sandusky  till  he  could  speak 
some  English.  It  happened  at  that  time  that  Father  Rappe 
had  also  asked  for  an  assistant,  and  was  given  Father  De 
Goesbriand,  then  (1846)  pastor  at  Louisville,  0.  Hut  there 
being  no  other  priest  to  take  his  place,  my  assistant  was  sent 
as  pastor  to  Louisville,  to  succeed  Father  De  Goesbriand. 
With  no  assistant,  and  with  the  same  number  of  missions,  I 
told    Father    Rappe   that,   as  lie  took  away  my  assistant,  he 

should  also  take  a  part  of  my  missions.       He  did    so,  and  they 

to.,k  charge  of  tin-  mission-,  of  the  southwest,  leaving  t«>  me 
the  e.i^t,  and  for  some  time,  the  visiting  of  the  German  settle- 
ment oi  Peru,  near  Norwalk,  left  without  any  priest.  I  visited 
it  one  Sunday  in  each  m< >nth. 


3o8  REMINISCENCES    OF 

REMINISCENCES  OF  THE  MISSIONARY  LABORS 
OF  BISHOPS  RAPPE  AND  De  GOESBRIAND  IN 
NORTHERN  OHIO. 

[  Written  by  Bishop  De  Goesbriand  and  published  in  the  Cat  ho  lie  (  rniverse  December 

27,    1888.] 

Rev.  Father  Rappe  arrived  at  Cincinnati  towards  the  end 
of  the  year  1840,  and  was  immediately  sent  to  Chillicothe  by 
Bishop  Pureed  to  learn  English  in  the  house  of  Mr.  Marshall 
Anderson.  This  excellent  convert  to  our  faith,  between  whom 
and  the  priest  there  sprung  up  immediately  the  most  sincere 
friendship,  was  admirably  qualified  to  teach  English  to  our 
uture  missionary;  but  Father  Rappe's  memory  was  none  of 
the  best.  His  ears  could  not  well  catch  the  sound  of  words 
which  he  had  never  heard  before,  and  he  experienced  serious 
difficulty  in  learning,  though  he  worked  at  it  long  and  hard. 

In  1 841  Toledo  was  a  new  place,  where  there  were  but  few 
Catholics.  They  had  no  church,  no  priest.  At  this  time,  also- 
the  State  was  building  the  Maumee  canal  west  of  Toledo,  and 
the  Maumee  Valley  was  full  of  Catholic  laborers.  The  Mau- 
mee Valley  at  this  time  was  literally  a  land  which  devoured 
its  inhabitants.  The  Maumee  fever  spared  no  one;  the  dis- 
ease slowly  but  surely  undermined  the  strongest  constitutions, 
and  there  was  not  an  old  man  to  be  seen  then  in  all  that 
country.  Another  more  dreadful  disease  reigned  amongst  the 
canal  men.  They  earned  plenty  of  money  and  spent  it  in 
drinking;  and  hence  their  temporal  and  spiritual  condition 
was  really  lamentable. 

From  1 84 1,  until  the  beginning  of  1846,  Father  Rappe 
attended  alone  to  the  spiritual  wants  of  the  Catholics  living 
along  the  Maumee  canal  and  river  from  Toledo  to  Indiana, 
and  as  far  south  as  Section  Ten,  in  Putnam  count}-.  His  labors 
and  privations  must  have  been  extraordinary.  The  hatred  he 
bore  the  sin  of  intemperance  owes  its  origin  to  the  fact  that 
he  saw  it  and  its  consequences  in  all  its  hicleousness,  along 
the  Maumee  Valley.  He  felt  that  the  only  way  to  save  the 
souls  of  these  poor  men  from  hell  was  to  make  them  take  the 
pledge  of  total  abstinence.      He  began  the  work  with   a   will, 


BISHOP  DE  GOESBRIAND.  309 

and  God  alone  knoWs  how  many  families  he  saved  from  misery, 
how  many  souls  he  reclaimed  from  sin,  who  are  now  in  the 
kingdom  of  heaven.  Hence  it  is  that  in  those  days  he  was 
blessed  and  welcomed  as  an  angel  of  peace,  and  the  fame  of  his 
labors  reached  far  and  wide.  During  the  four  years  that  Father 
Rappe  was  alone  in  Toledo  he  had  purchased  (1842)  a  Protest- 
ant church  in  that  place  and  another  (1841)  at  Maumee  City. 
A  small  church  had  been  erected  at  Proyidence  and  another  was 
being  erected  at  Defiance.  Before  the  beginning  of  1S46  the 
canal  had  been  built  and  was  in  full  operation.  The  bulk  of  the 
canal  builders  had  left,  but  some  of  them  settled  in  the  Maumee 
Valley.  At  this  time  (1846)  Father  Rappe  had  obtained  for 
Toledo  a  branch  of  the  Sisters  of  the  Congregation  of  Notre 
Dame,  whose  Mother  House  was  at  Cincinnati.  The}'  had 
originally  come  from  Xamur,  Belgium,  in   1X40. 

(  me  priest  could  not  attend  to  all  the  work,  and  it  was  in 
January,  [846,  that  I  came  to  Toledo  by  direction  of  the 
Bishop  of  Cincinnati.  The  city,  its  environs  and  the  whole 
of  the  country  as  fir  as  Indiana  were  very  sickly.  At  certain 
seasons  it  was  impossible  to  meet  one  healthy-looking  person, 
and  frequently  entire  families  were  sick  and  unable  to  help 
our  another.  Apart  from  the  terrible  fever,  we  were  occa- 
sionally visited  by  such  epidemics  as  erysipelas,  and  towards 
th.  cm\  of  [847  we  saw  the  ship-fever-stricken  immigrants 
land  on  the  docks  to  die  amongst  strangers  after  a  (cw  hours. 
There  were  hardly  any  Catholic  families  settled  on  the  south 
side  of  the  Maumee  river  from  Toledo  to  Defiance.  Mass  was 
now  said  regularly  every  Sunday  at  Toledo  and  frequently  at 
Maumee  City.  Such  settlements  as  Six-Mile-Woods,  Provi- 
dence, Defiance,  and  Poplar  Ridge  [New  Bavaria]  were  visited 

on  week  days,  and  for  some  time  we  also  had  charge  of  Fre- 
mont and  LaPrairie.  The  roads  were  at  times  extremely  bad, 
and  tin-  mission  \<r\  extensive,  but  as  tin-  Catholic  population 
was  not  very  large  in  any  settlement,  the  work  would  have 
hem  pK-asant  enough,  had  it   not  been  for  tin-  poverty  and 

sickness  which  prevailed  everywhere. 

The  example  of  Father  Rappe,  however,  was  enough  to 
encourage  .mil  comforl  any  man.     Me  knew  every  family  ami 


3io  REMINISCENCES    OF 

all  the  members  thereof,  and  would  bring  it  about  in  such  a 
way  that  every  child  would  be  instructed.  He  had  received 
a  particular  gift  to  teach  catechism,  and  he  would  spend  weeks 
in  succession  in  a  settlement  to  prepare  a  few  children  for 
their  first  communion.  During  this  time  of  preparation  he 
would  speak  to  them  as  many  as  eight  hours  every  day,  and, 
strange  to  say,  neither  he  nor  the  children  seemed  to  be  in 
any  way  fatigued.  As  soon  as  he  saw  that  any  neglected 
the  Sunday  Mass,  or  confession,  he  would  go  to  their  houses 
and  remonstrate  with  them.  If  he  met  a  stranger  who  seemed 
to  be  a  Catholic  he  would  stop  him  and  put  him  through  a 
course  of  rather  severe  questions,  if  he  saw  that  he  did  not 
come  to  Mass.  It  was  difficult  to  stand  his  rebukes,  and  more 
difficult  yet  to  resist  his  entreaties,  for  he  begged  of  them  to 
have  mercy  on  their  own  souls.  A  practice  peculiar  to  Father 
Rappe,  when  he  visited  settlements  or  public  works,  was  to 
explain  the  nature  of  the  Sacraments  before  administering 
them,  and  after  they  had  been  received,  to  make  aloud  an, 
extemporaneous  prayer,  imploring  the  help  of  God  that  the 
effect  of  the  Sacrament  might  be  full  and  permanent.  On 
such  occasions,  before  saying  Mass,  he  would  give  a  short 
explanation  of  it  and  suggest  the  dispositions  requisite  to  hear 
it,  and  at  the  end  of  Mass  he  would  return  thanks  aloud  for 
the  grace  of  receiving  Communion,  of  hearing  Mass,  of  hear- 
ing the  word  of  God,  and  would  in  his  prayer  draw  the  atten- 
tion of  his  hearers  to  the  most  practical  and  salient  points  of 
his  sermon.  The  most  difficult  work  had  been  done,  and  done 
by  Father  Rappe  alone,  when  I  arrived  at  Toledo;  but  I  could 
well  imagine  what  he  did  amongst  the  poor  canal  men  when 
there  were  crowds  of  them  in  the  Maumee  Valley. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  A.  Rappe  was  consecrated  October  10,  1847, 
at  Cincinnati,  by  Bishop  Purcell,  assisted  by  the  Bishop  of 
Wheeling.  He  came  immediately  to  Cleveland,  where  Rev.  M. 
Howard  was  pastor,  and  left  me  at  Toledo  with  a  young  priest 
whom  he  had  received  into  the  diocese.  Rev.  M.  Howard, 
having  been  stationed  at  Tiffin,  I  was  called  to  Cleveland  in 
January,  1848,  and  appointed  Vicar  General.  The  only  church 
then  in  Cleveland  was  old  St.  Mary's,  on  the  Flats. 


BISHOP  DE  GOESBRIAND.  311 

The  congregation  at  that  time  was  large  already,  and  the 
church  much  too  small.  Shortly  after  his  arrival  the  Bishop 
had  a  priest,  speaking  German,  to  attend  to  the  spiritual  wants 
of  the  Catholic  Germans,  and  two  High  Masses  were  sung 
every  Sunday  in  the  old  building.  The  Bishop  resided  first 
in  a  hired  house  south  of  the  Public  Square,  but  moved  to  the 
house  or  block  of  houses  on  Bond  street,  after  he  had  bought 
it,  which  was  shortly  after  arriving  in  Cleveland. 

To  supply  the  wants  of  the  growing  population  he  soon 
erected  a  frame  building,  30x60,  on  the  east  part  of  the  cathe- 
dral lot.  It  was  named  the  Church  of  the  Nativity,  and  here, 
part  of  the  time,  school  was  taught  on  week  days,  a  movable 
partition  or  folding  door  being  put  up  to  isolate  the  chancel. 
There  were  only  fourteen  secular  priests  in  the  diocese  of 
Cleveland  when  it  was  dismembered  from  Cincinnati.  In 
those  days  Bishop  Rappe  used  to  preach  missions  in  the 
churches  or  settlements  which  he  first  visited. 

The  Cathedral  was  begun  in  October,  1848.  The  venerable 
Administrator  of  Detroit,  Mgr.  LeFevre,  was  present  and 
preached  an  admirable  sermon  in  the  morning  at  St.  Mary's 
church,  on  the  day  of  the  blessing  of  the  corner  stone.  We 
had  a  procession  from  the  old  church,  and  the  crowd,  both  of 
Catholics  and  Protestants,  was  very  great.  In  the  fall  of  1849 
the  Bishop  started  for  Europe.  I  think  it  was  not  long  before 
this  time  that  the  venerable  Father  James  Conlan  came  [Octo- 
ber, 1849]  to  help  the  clergy  of  the  cathedral. 

The  Bishop  returned  in  August,  1850,  bringing  with  him 
four  priests,  five  seminarists,  and  five  or  six  I'rsuline  Sisters. 
The  present  Ursuline  convent  property  on  Euclid  avenue  had 
been  bought  by  his  direction  during  his  absence. 

The  brick  work  and  rool  of  the  cathedral  were  finished  before 
the  w  inter  of  1K50.  All  the  slates  were  imported  from  Wales, 
,ind  were  put  on  with  copper  nails.  The  drawings  for  the  finish- 
ing of  the  interior  w  ere  made  by  the  now  w  ell-known  architect, 
P.  C.  Keily, who  had  just  finished  St.  Patrick's  church  in  New  ark, 

N.  [.,  and  was  then  beginning  his  career  as  an  architect.  The 
cathedral  was  consecrated  November  7,  185 2.  The  Right  Rev. 
Bishop  Spalding,  of  Louisville,  preached  on  the  occasion. 


3i2  REMINISCENCES    OF 

Bishop  Rappe  had  arrived  in  Cleveland  at  the  time  of  the 
great  immigration  from  Ireland.  Hence  his  greatest  solici- 
tude was  to  procure  for  his  diocese  a  sufficient  number  of 
priests.  This  was  a  very  difficult  matter.  Up  to  that  time 
there  had  been  but  few  Catholic  schools  established  in  the 
country.  We  had  no  Catholic  colleges  or  seminaries  except 
at  very  great  distances,  and  among  the  young  men  from 
Europe  who  offered  themselves  as  candidates  for  the  priest- 
hood many  had  not  the  requisite  qualifications.  The  Bishop 
admitted,  however,  a  few  students  to  his  own  house,  and 
wished  me  to  instruct  them.  This  was  the  beginning,  and  a 
very  imperfect  one,  of  the  present  flourishing  seminary  of 
Cleveland.  When  Rev.  A.  Caron  arrived  in  1848  he  was 
given  exclusive  charge  of  the  seminary,  which  continued  to 
improve.  When  the  "Spring  Cottage  property"  on  Lake 
street  was  purchased  in  1850,  the  seminarists  moved  thither 
with  their  venerable  and  able  director. 

Among  the  seminarists  who  were  admitted  I  remember 
two  very  saintly  young  men  who  died  in  the  house  of  the 
Bishop  on  Bond  street.  They  were  Constant  Machen  and  W. 
Guilfoyle. 

For  some  years  the  clergy  of  the  Cathedral  used  to  visit 
regularly  once  a  month,  on  Sunday,  the  settlements  of  Laporte 
and  Painesville,  and  occasionally,  on  week  days,  the  settle- 
ments of  Berea,  Rockport  and  Independence.  We  had  also 
to  visit  the  laborers  on  the  ["C.  C."  and  Lake  Shore]  railroads 
when  they  were  building  them. 

Among  the  benefactors  of  the  diocese  of  Cleveland  there 
is  one  whose  name  I  have  forgotten.  The  person  I  refer  to 
[Miss  C.  Pance]  was  a  lady  from  Paris  who,  knowing  that 
there  were  many  orphans  in  Cleveland  to  be  provided  for, 
volunteered  to  come,  in  185  1,  and  consecrate  her  fortune  to 
the  building  of  an  orphan  asylum.  With  her  came  two 
devoted  companions,  one  of  whom,  Miss  Ferec,  was  well 
known  in  Cleveland.  The  building  on  Harmon  street  was 
erected  at  the  expense  of  the  benefactress  I  allude  to,  but 
she  died  a  few  days  before  it  was  ready  for  the  reception  of 
orphans.      Her  coming  to  Cleveland  was  very  providential,  at 


BISHOP  DE  GOESBRIAND.  313 

a  time  when  so  many  immigrants  were  carried  away  by  ship- 
fever  or  cholera,  leaving  their  children  unprovided  for. 

There  is  another  name  which  I  desire  to  mention.  It  is 
that  of  Miss  C.  Bissonette,  of  LaPrairie,  who  since  became 
Mother  Ursula,  the  first  superioress  of  the  St.  Vincent's  orphan 
asylum  in  Ohio  City  [now  Monroe  street,  Cleveland],  and  who 
died  September  1  1,  1863.  During  the  cholera  which  did  so 
much  havoc  in  Sandusky  City,  many  children  of  Catholics 
had  lost  both  their  parents,  and  some  poor  widows  were  left 
in  the  greatest  distress.  At  my  request  this  courageous  young 
girl,  whose  labors  at  LaPrairie  toward  the  instruction  of  chil- 
dren I  knew,  came  at  once  to  Sandusky  City,  at  a  time  when 
all  who  could  had  fled.  We  made  her  take  possession  of  a 
good  house  which  had  been  deserted.  Furniture  was  obtained 
by  entering  a  steamboat  which  lay  deserted  in  the  bay.  There 
this  devoted  soul  managed  to  provide  for  the  wants  of  orphans 
and  parents  till  the  terrible  scourge  had  passed  away.  Her 
vocation  to  a  religious  life  was  undoubtedly  the  reward  for  her 
generosity,  in  offering  her  life  for  the  sake  of  the  orphans.  I 
knew  of  few  persons  for  whom  nature  and  divine  grace  had 
done  so  much  as  for  the  venerable  Mother  Ursula. 


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